1
00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,000
Speaker 1: In today's episode of No Dunks is brought to you

2
00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:06,120
Speaker 1: by Netsweet Successful Companies. No faster growth requires the right tools.

3
00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,680
Speaker 1: If you're doing one, ten, or hundreds of millions of

4
00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,600
Speaker 1: dollars in revenue. Netsweek by Oracle gives a full picture

5
00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,680
Speaker 1: of your business, finance, inventory, hr, customers, and more, all

6
00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:19,680
Speaker 1: in one place. Over nineteen thousand companies trust NetSuite, the

7
00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,400
Speaker 1: world's number one cloud business system. Schedule your free product

8
00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,480
Speaker 1: tour right now and receive your free guide seven key

9
00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:30,320
Speaker 1: strategies to grow your profits at netsweet dot com slash listen.

10
00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:32,960
Speaker 1: That's netsweet dot com slash listen.

11
00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,320
Speaker 2: Hey, I've stubbed my toe really really hard and it

12
00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:42,920
Speaker 2: made me cry. I'm pretty sure my toe said the

13
00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:44,640
Speaker 2: earth rud more than I did.

14
00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,160
Speaker 3: Good morning, Sweet world, and welcome to the New Dunks

15
00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:58,520
Speaker 3: podcast on the Athletic Network, Wednesday, February twelfth on geez

16
00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:00,480
Speaker 3: skis and alongside me as all Test.

17
00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:01,840
Speaker 4: Mellie, Good morning, Good morning Test.

18
00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,160
Speaker 2: We got the beard to one Trey Kirby. Hey, hey Jo,

19
00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:06,959
Speaker 2: the International Man of Mystery, taking it to the Max

20
00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:11,200
Speaker 2: Lelis friend, last, but not least, making the magic happen.

21
00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:13,640
Speaker 2: It's JD. Hello, there he is and here we are.

22
00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:20,319
Speaker 2: Happy Survivor Day. Everyone, winners at War number forty two night.

23
00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:20,600
Speaker 4: Guys.

24
00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,479
Speaker 2: Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at No Dunk Sinc.

25
00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,200
Speaker 2: You know we're on Facebook at Facebook dot com slash

26
00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:28,400
Speaker 2: No Dunk Sinc. Well, I guess it's official. We're now

27
00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,720
Speaker 2: on Facebook and email us your NBA questions and comments

28
00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,319
Speaker 2: to No Dunks at the Athletic dot com. Keep them coming.

29
00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,760
Speaker 2: We'll be stepping on the beach a little later today.

30
00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,560
Speaker 2: And yesterday we dropped a little bonus podcast for you

31
00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:44,640
Speaker 2: guys where we interviewed NBA Dunk coach Chuck Milan. Chuck

32
00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:46,960
Speaker 2: has helped guys like Glenn Robinson the Third and Donovan

33
00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,560
Speaker 2: Mitchell and Hamadu Diallo all win the Dunk Contest and

34
00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,920
Speaker 2: now he's employed by the NBA to help whoever wants

35
00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,160
Speaker 2: it in the Dunk Contest. He talked about his one

36
00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,760
Speaker 2: of a kind job this year's field what makes a

37
00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:02,280
Speaker 2: good Dunker? And it's Carter's two thousand performance, which it's

38
00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:06,200
Speaker 2: the twentieth anniversary of today, and we got into a

39
00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:07,880
Speaker 2: lot more so go check that out. It was a

40
00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,280
Speaker 2: lot of fun that podcast, one on one with NBA

41
00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,280
Speaker 2: dunk coach Chuck Milan. If you're a dunk fan like

42
00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:16,840
Speaker 2: we are, you guys pump for the dunk contest coming.

43
00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:22,000
Speaker 4: Up on Saturday. I am. I wouldn't call pumped. I'm intrigued.

44
00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:24,880
Speaker 4: I'm intrigued. I think it's gonna be a good crop.

45
00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,679
Speaker 2: Well, Chuck said at the end of that podcast that

46
00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:32,000
Speaker 2: you can expect four dunks we've never seen before in

47
00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,639
Speaker 2: a contest. Saw that, now, that's interesting. That's interesting, especially

48
00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:36,399
Speaker 2: for all the people.

49
00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,920
Speaker 3: That go all the dunks have been done, there's no

50
00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:40,040
Speaker 3: dunks left to do.

51
00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,040
Speaker 2: Why are they doing it anymore? He says, we're gonna

52
00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:44,919
Speaker 2: see some things we haven't seen again before, at least

53
00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:46,800
Speaker 2: in an NBA dunk contest. So hopefully that comes true.

54
00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:48,200
Speaker 4: Good crop, it's a good crop.

55
00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:52,079
Speaker 2: Four guys, all right, So we'll get to the latest.

56
00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,320
Speaker 2: Nix Snath, who in a tweet of the night, yes,

57
00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,440
Speaker 2: Lely turned in his back once again on the Knicks franchise.

58
00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:01,880
Speaker 2: Maybe when we get but we had some great games

59
00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:04,600
Speaker 2: on last night so on TNT some other ones that

60
00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,600
Speaker 2: were a little juicy. So let's run through these. Let's

61
00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,720
Speaker 2: start with the Sixers improving to twenty five and two

62
00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:15,000
Speaker 2: at home, even though Paul George was complaining about the

63
00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,760
Speaker 2: home court cook and whistle that the Sixers got there.

64
00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,320
Speaker 2: Philly won ten Clippers one oh three. There's a lot

65
00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,440
Speaker 2: to unpack from this game because we had Horford coming

66
00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,120
Speaker 2: off the bench. You had the whole, you know, fallout

67
00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,240
Speaker 2: with Joel Embiid after the social media post that he

68
00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:32,799
Speaker 2: had shushing the crowd and saying he was the dark

69
00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:34,920
Speaker 2: Knight and all that or whatever the joker I guess,

70
00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,400
Speaker 2: and then getting mood in the pregame and quickly turning

71
00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,080
Speaker 2: into a hero once again. And then you had Simons

72
00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,400
Speaker 2: playing well like so much. We had a scuffle. Where

73
00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:44,040
Speaker 2: do you want to start? What jumps out to you?

74
00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:48,880
Speaker 4: Let's start with Joel Embiid and being motivated by Instagram,

75
00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,160
Speaker 4: being motivated by that peripheral stuff. I think Joel Embiid

76
00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,200
Speaker 4: needs that type of stuff to get pumped. I think

77
00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,040
Speaker 4: we've seen that he isn't that type of guy, sort

78
00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,440
Speaker 4: of like Shack in his day that's going to out

79
00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:03,200
Speaker 4: and work out hard every day and get in tip

80
00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,480
Speaker 4: top physical shape. The difference between Joe Embiid in Shack

81
00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,160
Speaker 4: is that the style of play right now doesn't cater

82
00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:13,440
Speaker 4: to Joel Embiid's game, but all the stuff around Joel

83
00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:17,200
Speaker 4: Embiid helps him enough to go out and dominate. He

84
00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,200
Speaker 4: should be the second most dominant player in the Eastern Conference,

85
00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,560
Speaker 4: but behind Giannis at Gumbo, and maybe the playoffs can

86
00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,200
Speaker 4: motivate him enough. They were pretty close last year to

87
00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:27,919
Speaker 4: getting to the Eastern Conference Final and playing the Milwaukee Bucks.

88
00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,120
Speaker 4: And I think the good thing about the Sixers and

89
00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,320
Speaker 4: why I would still pick them as the toughest opponent

90
00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:37,120
Speaker 4: for the Bucks in the Eastern Conference, is that I

91
00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:39,159
Speaker 4: would ask have they played their best basketball? The answer

92
00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,880
Speaker 4: is most definitely not. I think the Raptors are playing

93
00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,760
Speaker 4: their best basketball right now and the Embiid, Simmons, Horford

94
00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:50,480
Speaker 4: combo probably is the best foil for Yiannis that there

95
00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,600
Speaker 4: is in the Eastern Conference, and so the playoffs will

96
00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,479
Speaker 4: motivate him like the playoffs motivated Shack. But it's not

97
00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,840
Speaker 4: fun to watch night in and night out with this dude.

98
00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,120
Speaker 4: But hey, he's the joker. He's tough when he plays

99
00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:03,920
Speaker 4: like that. Even though he took a lot of threes

100
00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,720
Speaker 4: and the furking quirk mass name we can talk about,

101
00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,120
Speaker 4: he got some. He got the floor spread for him,

102
00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:11,839
Speaker 4: his ceiling's higher than Ben Simmons. I think that's clear.

103
00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:14,800
Speaker 4: John BID's ceiling is higher than Ben Simmons if he

104
00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,640
Speaker 4: wants it to be, and so here's there. He should

105
00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:19,360
Speaker 4: be their main game.

106
00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,200
Speaker 1: It was a galvanizing win, I thought for the Sixers

107
00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,200
Speaker 1: last night. The team seemed to be like, hey, we

108
00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:26,680
Speaker 1: see all the trash. It's been spoken about us, about

109
00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:28,480
Speaker 1: our locker room and how we can't work together. But

110
00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:30,000
Speaker 1: they seemed all on the same page.

111
00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,240
Speaker 5: Isn't all the trash being talked about their locker room

112
00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:34,320
Speaker 5: the Sixers talking about their locker room.

113
00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're getting they're getting flak from the media

114
00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:38,360
Speaker 1: as well. People are saying, ah, this can't work. You're

115
00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,760
Speaker 1: gonna have to pick Simmons or Embiid and Halford's been

116
00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:42,800
Speaker 1: a bus since coming over. And then we moved to

117
00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:44,880
Speaker 1: the bench last night and they get a win. So

118
00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,280
Speaker 1: it's one game. It's against a good team of course,

119
00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,160
Speaker 1: in the Clippers, but it just seen there was a

120
00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:50,960
Speaker 1: couple of plays, particularly in that fourth quarter when the

121
00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:52,720
Speaker 1: game was close. It was only one point game there

122
00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:54,400
Speaker 1: with I don't know seven or eight minutes to go,

123
00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:56,479
Speaker 1: and then there was a couple of baskets and Bead

124
00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:58,960
Speaker 1: got fout a couple of times. He was seeing zoobats

125
00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:00,240
Speaker 1: and he was like, all right, this guy has not

126
00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,080
Speaker 1: stopped me. And he was going inside and you could

127
00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,520
Speaker 1: see the sixers on the bench everyone getting up and reacting,

128
00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:08,200
Speaker 1: and to me, that was like, listen, we are a

129
00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:11,000
Speaker 1: good team. We are a contending team, even though they

130
00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,159
Speaker 1: haven't been playing that way right now. So the question

131
00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,080
Speaker 1: going forward really for Brett Brown is does he start

132
00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,600
Speaker 1: Ol Hawford again, does he reinsert him into that starting lineup,

133
00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:20,200
Speaker 1: or does he keep him coming off the bench because

134
00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:27,920
Speaker 1: Corkman's last night. He obviously didn't have a great game

135
00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,040
Speaker 1: last night after a great week that he had last

136
00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:31,120
Speaker 1: week now.

137
00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:32,880
Speaker 4: But it's important I think for him to be out

138
00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:33,559
Speaker 4: there just to speak.

139
00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,640
Speaker 1: So do I, so do I? But then Ol Howford,

140
00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,520
Speaker 1: the whole reason forgetting him was to try to spray

141
00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:39,760
Speaker 1: space the floor as well somewhat. So that's going to

142
00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:41,920
Speaker 1: be the question for Brett Brown. I don't think he's

143
00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:44,120
Speaker 1: locked in either way right now. I think it could

144
00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:45,799
Speaker 1: be something that he keeps going with for a couple

145
00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,040
Speaker 1: of games, but that he might bring Howford back in

146
00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:50,840
Speaker 1: depending on matchups. Because that's largely what he said last night.

147
00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:53,039
Speaker 1: He thought they were going small, so we went with

148
00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,720
Speaker 1: small as well. But yeah, good important win for Philadelphia

149
00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:00,480
Speaker 1: against a team that you know is considered to contenda,

150
00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:02,360
Speaker 1: even though they've got a few issues themselves.

151
00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:04,440
Speaker 5: I think Corford should stay on the bench. He should

152
00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,200
Speaker 5: be their backup center because it just doesn't work when

153
00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:09,479
Speaker 5: you play two centers and two power forwards. There's not

154
00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,880
Speaker 5: enough space out there, and you know, it makes it

155
00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,360
Speaker 5: cramped for Simmons getting inside. It makes it cramped for

156
00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:17,440
Speaker 5: Embiid trying to do any sort of spin move. But

157
00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,080
Speaker 5: when you have one giant, it's easy to throw them lobs,

158
00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:23,239
Speaker 5: especially against the team like the Clippers, who are gonna

159
00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,280
Speaker 5: need somebody bigger from the buyout market. I don't know

160
00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:27,960
Speaker 5: who that is going to be, but they need somebody

161
00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,320
Speaker 5: that's gonna be able to bang against a Jokich or

162
00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,440
Speaker 5: inn Anthony Davis. So Embiid should feast against the team

163
00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:35,720
Speaker 5: like the Clippers. But I thought it was good that

164
00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,480
Speaker 5: the seventy six ers really made it a point to

165
00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,400
Speaker 5: be inside and playing to their strengths last night, which

166
00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,400
Speaker 5: then in turn allowed Harris to have a nice game, allowed.

167
00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,239
Speaker 2: Josh Richardson to have a really great fourth quarter.

168
00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,320
Speaker 5: I thought they were key in bringing home the victory,

169
00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,760
Speaker 5: just because everybody's playing the right position now. It just

170
00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,680
Speaker 5: doesn't make sense to play four guys over or three

171
00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:55,360
Speaker 5: guys I guess that are six ten and taller, and

172
00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,400
Speaker 5: then Tobias Harris, who is a small ball for it. It

173
00:07:57,400 --> 00:07:59,240
Speaker 5: doesn't make sense to have those four guys on the

174
00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,240
Speaker 5: court because that's just not the way a basketball team

175
00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:03,120
Speaker 5: is made in twenty twenty.

176
00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was the first time Horford has come off

177
00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,720
Speaker 2: the bench since his rookie season back into seven. But

178
00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,440
Speaker 2: you said Furkan, he started the first half, Glenn Robinson

179
00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:13,280
Speaker 2: the third, starting at that wing position in the second half.

180
00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:15,440
Speaker 2: I'm with you, though, I'll had a good game off

181
00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,080
Speaker 2: the bench. It's an expensive backup center, that's for sure,

182
00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:20,640
Speaker 2: back up big. But nine points he was a plus

183
00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:22,680
Speaker 2: ten and you're right the whole thing. The two things

184
00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,040
Speaker 2: that it really does. Tobias plays a more natural spot

185
00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,480
Speaker 2: at his four, and there's just way more room for

186
00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,320
Speaker 2: an engaged Ben Simmons to attack, attack, attack. I thought

187
00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:34,040
Speaker 2: that was a monster game from Ben Simmons. Embeid, You're

188
00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:35,880
Speaker 2: right at times, I think I don't get rid of

189
00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:38,600
Speaker 2: the three still, but at times sprinting down the floor,

190
00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:40,720
Speaker 2: getting deep, establishing and they would get in on the ball.

191
00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:42,760
Speaker 2: But Simmons was the one on both ends. I mean

192
00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:46,319
Speaker 2: he was guarding kawimost than Nightattle. Hell yeah. And he

193
00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,520
Speaker 2: finished with twenty six points, twelve boards tennis sist. He

194
00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,040
Speaker 2: took twenty two shots. That's the real stat that jumps

195
00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:53,960
Speaker 2: out off the box score to me. He was aggressive

196
00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,360
Speaker 2: and that's fine, flipping it in with his left hand,

197
00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,040
Speaker 2: his right hand, whatever, when he gets in there.

198
00:08:58,200 --> 00:08:58,640
Speaker 4: It was great.

199
00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:00,840
Speaker 2: It was awesome in brown things. That arguably the best

200
00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:04,199
Speaker 2: game Embiid and Simmons have paired up since he's been there.

201
00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,120
Speaker 2: That game last night, Sure, that's pretty wild.

202
00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,480
Speaker 1: A third season yeah together right.

203
00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,520
Speaker 5: And well, Simmons and Horford I think are a great match.

204
00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:14,280
Speaker 5: So you know, Embiid is not able to play forty

205
00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:16,120
Speaker 5: minutes a night, where Ben Simmons kind of is. So

206
00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,360
Speaker 5: when Embiid is on the bench, it's a nice mix

207
00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:20,480
Speaker 5: with Al Horford. The only fit is then when all

208
00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:22,520
Speaker 5: three of them are on the court, it just doesn't work.

209
00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:26,480
Speaker 5: But Simmons and Horford is good together. Embiid and Horford no,

210
00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:26,880
Speaker 5: thank you.

211
00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:29,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Josh Riitzen, you guy said it scored seventeen

212
00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:31,000
Speaker 2: and was twenty one in the fourth quarter. He had

213
00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:33,439
Speaker 2: some big big shots. We had the little scuffle there

214
00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:36,520
Speaker 2: between embiid and Marcus Morris. Like Embiid, I mean, he

215
00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:39,319
Speaker 2: he leaned into embracing the booze or whatever. I actually

216
00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:41,959
Speaker 2: didn't think the boos were all that crazy in the

217
00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:44,560
Speaker 2: starting lineup. You know, I know the clips are going

218
00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,120
Speaker 2: around and that's what it said. You listen to it, minor.

219
00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,080
Speaker 2: There are some people booing, but it's not. The whole

220
00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,880
Speaker 2: crowd is not booing at all. But anyway, he loves it.

221
00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:55,000
Speaker 2: And his weird explanation for the Instagram post. I mean,

222
00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,440
Speaker 2: it's even more confusing to me now. But embiid said,

223
00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:59,800
Speaker 2: if you dish it, you got to take it back.

224
00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,320
Speaker 2: But I love my city. We have a special relationship.

225
00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:05,360
Speaker 2: So his whole idea is like, so they can boom

226
00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,280
Speaker 2: me and I'm man enough, I guess to take it.

227
00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,839
Speaker 2: That's cool, But then I'll post this to all of

228
00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:12,880
Speaker 2: you on Instagram. You be able to take it to

229
00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,599
Speaker 2: what weird weird reasoning, but it is what it is.

230
00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:18,839
Speaker 2: And yeah, again, maybe he does just work better with

231
00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,720
Speaker 2: the chaos and the trolling and like that and all this. Yeah,

232
00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:24,559
Speaker 2: it really does. That was a good win. What do

233
00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:26,719
Speaker 2: you think about Paul George not being happy with that

234
00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,440
Speaker 2: foul disparity? Does he have a case because he says, like, hey, look,

235
00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:33,000
Speaker 2: six Ers had eleven team foulsand Clippers had nineteen where

236
00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:34,079
Speaker 2: the whistle wasn't fair.

237
00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,640
Speaker 1: It's who cares about that sort of stuff. I mean,

238
00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:40,440
Speaker 1: the Clippers were outplay last night and the fourth quarter

239
00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:42,320
Speaker 1: the Clippers made a class mention it. They made at

240
00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:43,959
Speaker 1: one point game and Paul George came out in that

241
00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,600
Speaker 1: fourth quarter firing, and he got a couple of sort

242
00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:48,920
Speaker 1: of either non calls or lucky calls to go his favor.

243
00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,199
Speaker 1: He got to the free throw line. So after the

244
00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:52,920
Speaker 1: game to complain about it in the game like that,

245
00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,920
Speaker 1: I mean, let's let's move on. Let's not worry fat.

246
00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,320
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like it was that egregious where

247
00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,120
Speaker 1: they were just walking up to the free throw line. Ya,

248
00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:01,520
Speaker 1: when you're in bad and you've got zoo bats on,

249
00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:02,840
Speaker 1: you go at him, of course.

250
00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:03,400
Speaker 4: Exactly.

251
00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:04,360
Speaker 2: You look at the box score.

252
00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:06,360
Speaker 5: Embiid is the only guy who's really taken free throws.

253
00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,079
Speaker 5: He took eight or thirteen attempts last night because he

254
00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:11,520
Speaker 5: was dominating inside. There were thirty nine attempts in the

255
00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:14,400
Speaker 5: restricted area for the Sixers, just twenty one for the Clippers.

256
00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:16,480
Speaker 5: That's where you're getting the files. Yeah, you're big guys,

257
00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:18,240
Speaker 5: can't guard. They're a big gay. They're hacking him.

258
00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:21,280
Speaker 1: And even when Morris was on him, I mean, Embiid

259
00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,240
Speaker 1: makes him look tiny. Yeah, Morris is not a huge guy,

260
00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:27,520
Speaker 1: but compared to Mbiyah, you know, he looks like a

261
00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:29,920
Speaker 1: little bug. And that's what you know, That's what you

262
00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,679
Speaker 1: know Shak used to do. We compare Joel Embiid to

263
00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,400
Speaker 1: Shack sometimes. Well, Shaq used to going against whoever it

264
00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:37,199
Speaker 1: was and just throw them out away because he was

265
00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,199
Speaker 1: so much bigger than them. So Embiid needs to do

266
00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,040
Speaker 1: more of that. Get to the free throw line, get

267
00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:43,480
Speaker 1: some easy shots, and get some easy points, and that'll

268
00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:46,280
Speaker 1: open up his game a whole lot more, you know.

269
00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,559
Speaker 1: Stam Van Gundy mentioned on the broadcast a couple of times. Way, yeah,

270
00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,480
Speaker 1: he was down in the low post there. When he

271
00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,280
Speaker 1: demands the ball, it creates that second defender has to

272
00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,800
Speaker 1: come and help because there's no one who's physically strong

273
00:11:57,920 --> 00:11:59,760
Speaker 1: enough to defend him, and then that opens up the

274
00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,200
Speaker 1: floor for Philadelphia. That's why Josh Richardson hit a couple

275
00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:04,720
Speaker 1: of threes, because then the ball goes moving around. Either

276
00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,040
Speaker 1: it either goes moving around or Embiid just turns around

277
00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,360
Speaker 1: and goes inside. So that's that's the way Embiid should

278
00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,120
Speaker 1: be playing a little bit more of and not settling

279
00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:12,800
Speaker 1: for those threes.

280
00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:15,240
Speaker 4: Of course, I mean, think about the guys who can

281
00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:16,600
Speaker 4: guard him one on one in the league.

282
00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:19,520
Speaker 2: Marcusol Yeah, Marcusol.

283
00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:24,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's he's definitely one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, some degree

284
00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,640
Speaker 4: for sure. You know, the Lopez bros. Are gonna have

285
00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,280
Speaker 4: some fun with them when they play the Bucks. If

286
00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:31,319
Speaker 4: they do play the Bucks, and that would be the

287
00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:34,319
Speaker 4: second round matchup. You know, I looked at the standings

288
00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:38,240
Speaker 4: yesterday and it's the four or five would be Heat Clippers.

289
00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,240
Speaker 4: They're starting Heat sixers. They're starting to settle into that

290
00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:43,679
Speaker 4: little four or five matchup a little bit. And those

291
00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:45,800
Speaker 4: are two of the best teams at home this season.

292
00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:48,559
Speaker 4: They don't lose at home, neither of them really, So

293
00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:51,760
Speaker 4: it's like hit the simulate button, man, Simmit, that's it.

294
00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,000
Speaker 4: It's gonna be seven straight home wins in that series.

295
00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,000
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's gonna be Embiid against the Lopez bros.

296
00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:58,720
Speaker 4: If they play, that'd be fun to watch. But even

297
00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:01,520
Speaker 4: those two guys, he can just throw them around. You

298
00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:02,160
Speaker 4: really can't.

299
00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,040
Speaker 2: So do you still believe then, in the Sixers team,

300
00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,040
Speaker 2: despite sort of the turmoil and the disappointing season they've

301
00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:09,079
Speaker 2: had in the regular season.

302
00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:11,760
Speaker 4: I still think they're the best matchup for taking down

303
00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:13,640
Speaker 4: there for the Bucks. I think they're the second best

304
00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:16,400
Speaker 4: team when it comes down to the playoffs if they're

305
00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:18,600
Speaker 4: playing you know well enough, Yeah, I think so. Yeah,

306
00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:19,040
Speaker 4: I think they.

307
00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,600
Speaker 2: Could beat the I think a lot of people agree

308
00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,240
Speaker 2: with that. It's tough because I mean, I sort of

309
00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:25,199
Speaker 2: I remember convincing myself last year with the whole Kyrie

310
00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,319
Speaker 2: Irving Celtics mess, and you're like, well, there's still such

311
00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:29,400
Speaker 2: a talented team, you know, in a playoff series when

312
00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,120
Speaker 2: they get there, you know they'll be fine, they'll figure

313
00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,000
Speaker 2: it out. And they didn't, right, I mean, you know,

314
00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,560
Speaker 2: they they flounder it. So it's like that could happen.

315
00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,719
Speaker 2: I guess too. But maybe this's the unlocking of just

316
00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,440
Speaker 2: the starting lineup and having more shooters out there. Maybe

317
00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:45,880
Speaker 2: that's the key, just bringing Horford off the bench, doing

318
00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:47,719
Speaker 2: a little bit what the reps have done before with

319
00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:49,959
Speaker 2: you know, starting I guess ol or in Obaca. I

320
00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:53,320
Speaker 2: know they're two big guys, but they played differently. Maybe

321
00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,199
Speaker 2: that's what Brett Brown and the Sixers do here and

322
00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:55,560
Speaker 2: it works.

323
00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:59,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I don't think it's super con or super

324
00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:01,760
Speaker 5: surprised that it would take this long to kind of

325
00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:03,920
Speaker 5: figure out that maybe Horford needs to go to the bench,

326
00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,360
Speaker 5: because the guy has played his entire career as a five.

327
00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,280
Speaker 5: But for the entire time, it was almost like saying, oh,

328
00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,240
Speaker 5: he should have actually been playing four this whole time.

329
00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,440
Speaker 5: But now he's an old man, he's still a five.

330
00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:15,959
Speaker 5: So they were forcing him into what they thought he was.

331
00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,240
Speaker 5: Now they apparently have figured out what he is. I

332
00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:19,720
Speaker 5: don't know how you could send him to the bench

333
00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,240
Speaker 5: and then bring him back treating him maybe as a

334
00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,440
Speaker 5: spot starter works in the playoffs, but I imagine he'll

335
00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:28,080
Speaker 5: stay on the bench just because it makes more sense.

336
00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:30,320
Speaker 4: We'll get it. He'll get a lot of minutes at

337
00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,680
Speaker 4: the five if Joel Embiid is your center, because Joel Embiid,

338
00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:35,600
Speaker 4: like you said, he can't play forty minutes. And there

339
00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:40,360
Speaker 4: was the playoffs last year where he was sick and injured,

340
00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:42,280
Speaker 4: and you've missed a lot of time in the playoffs.

341
00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:45,680
Speaker 4: He's just he's not the guy who's bringing that tip

342
00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:49,400
Speaker 4: top shape it really, you know, and we speculated he's sick.

343
00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,760
Speaker 4: He's got to he can't play through this respiratory thing

344
00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,200
Speaker 4: that just sort of came out of nowhere. There's gonna

345
00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:56,520
Speaker 4: be lots of minutes, I think for Al Horford at

346
00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:56,920
Speaker 4: the five.

347
00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,320
Speaker 2: Did you like or dislike the double tech call on

348
00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,960
Speaker 2: Embiid and more good? I don't think Embiid warranted a tech.

349
00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:04,640
Speaker 4: On that one.

350
00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:06,240
Speaker 2: He really didn't do anything.

351
00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:07,000
Speaker 4: He was restrained.

352
00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, they never They never really do though. It's usually

353
00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:11,080
Speaker 1: one person who's doing it and the rest just hit

354
00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:11,720
Speaker 1: him with both.

355
00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:13,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, just to say cut this crap out.

356
00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:15,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just worried that one guy was going

357
00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,800
Speaker 4: to get tossed, because everybody gets tossed in the NBA.

358
00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,120
Speaker 4: It sure feels like right, I mean that there was

359
00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:24,080
Speaker 4: a double double hands to the chest of Joel Embiid.

360
00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,120
Speaker 4: It was a good push from Marcus Morris.

361
00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:28,800
Speaker 1: He's barely moved, that's the thing. And then again it

362
00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:30,280
Speaker 1: just that's what I was saying before. It just shows

363
00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,320
Speaker 1: how much bigger Embiid is against these other huge guys

364
00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,960
Speaker 1: that Morris can shove him and barely look like he

365
00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:37,360
Speaker 1: makes any sort of movement on him.

366
00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:40,960
Speaker 4: And bid was hilarious putting. He like put a paw

367
00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:44,560
Speaker 4: on Marcus Morris's chest, like he he restrained himself so

368
00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:46,800
Speaker 4: hard he did not want to get tossed from that game.

369
00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,520
Speaker 4: He barely gave him a little titty tap.

370
00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:53,320
Speaker 2: Moving on here, Harden and Westbrook helped the Rocket snap

371
00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:57,560
Speaker 2: the Celtics seven game win streak. Houston won sixteen, Boston

372
00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:01,120
Speaker 2: one or five. Bill Simmons not happy with this game,

373
00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,560
Speaker 2: tweeting at one point, Houston needed to get rid of

374
00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:06,920
Speaker 2: their center and go small, so Westbrook had more space

375
00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,440
Speaker 2: to go barreling full speed into dudes with his elbows up.

376
00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:13,960
Speaker 2: He caught a couple guys last night, and there was

377
00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:18,080
Speaker 2: some you know, Jyllan Brown unfortunate injury too. That was Westbrook,

378
00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,760
Speaker 2: I believe, you know, going for a rebound and sort

379
00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:24,280
Speaker 2: of buckled into him and down went Brown, but Hardened

380
00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,160
Speaker 2: forty two points, Westbrook thirty six, and they went on

381
00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:29,560
Speaker 2: out late. This was a close game too. This was again,

382
00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:31,520
Speaker 2: this was a nice little TNT doubleheader last night in

383
00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,280
Speaker 2: terms of close games, but Houston broke it open with

384
00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:36,240
Speaker 2: that fifteen to two run down the stretch house his house,

385
00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,200
Speaker 2: scoring some points hard and getting some points there and

386
00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,640
Speaker 2: part of that run, so they got the victory. What

387
00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:42,920
Speaker 2: do you think of this one, Simon's have a point.

388
00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:46,680
Speaker 1: No Harden, you mentioned the forty two points there. It

389
00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:48,800
Speaker 1: didn't feel like that to me. It felt like Westbrook

390
00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,200
Speaker 1: was the was the dominant player of this game last night,

391
00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,320
Speaker 1: and again just playing very smart, sort of in control,

392
00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:54,960
Speaker 1: out of control.

393
00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:57,680
Speaker 2: Russell Wills, he had a couple of Westbrook moments where

394
00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,800
Speaker 2: he dribbled, ribbled, dribble and cought did over a couple times,

395
00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:03,160
Speaker 2: and then he does the classic thing like well I'm

396
00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,359
Speaker 2: scoring the next possession down and he took a bat

397
00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:07,560
Speaker 2: and he goes. I was like, oh, that's the bad Russ.

398
00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:09,960
Speaker 1: But what I'd like seeing about him right now is

399
00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,840
Speaker 1: he's not just going out there that stuff and trying

400
00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,640
Speaker 1: to get triple doubles. He's playing He's playing a smart game.

401
00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:16,840
Speaker 1: He's playing so well in this last month or so,

402
00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,439
Speaker 1: and again last night was another example of they got

403
00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:21,760
Speaker 1: getting to the free throw thirteen for twenty three from

404
00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,200
Speaker 1: the field. That's very efficient for us, but still allowed

405
00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:27,000
Speaker 1: James Harden to hit his shots and he got to

406
00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:27,680
Speaker 1: the line as well.

407
00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:31,120
Speaker 2: So and Horridon had the step back going. Yeah.

408
00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, he knocked at it. And Marcus Smart was like

409
00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:34,960
Speaker 1: draped on him. Oh, I know a couple of times.

410
00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,080
Speaker 2: He couldn't play him any better on a couple of those,

411
00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:39,320
Speaker 2: and he was still knocking them down. Yep, he hit

412
00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:39,959
Speaker 2: seven or roll.

413
00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:42,240
Speaker 1: So the Rockets are two and two in the in

414
00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:43,359
Speaker 1: the this experiment.

415
00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:44,680
Speaker 2: Now he's super small ball.

416
00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:45,080
Speaker 1: Yeah.

417
00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:47,439
Speaker 4: One was without Weiss broke one of those lasses.

418
00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the other one was a buzzer beater, which

419
00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:52,159
Speaker 1: they would have won if that shot doesn't go in.

420
00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:54,879
Speaker 1: But so so far, so good that well PJ Tucket

421
00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,560
Speaker 1: didn't really do all that much. Last who knows what

422
00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,280
Speaker 1: to make of it, but important, important win for Theckets

423
00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:03,080
Speaker 1: and the Celtics snap their their hot streak.

424
00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was a Tatum was quoted after the

425
00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:08,639
Speaker 2: game saying it was a tough, nasty game. Hmmm, and

426
00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:10,800
Speaker 2: if you watched it, it was it wasn't pretty.

427
00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,960
Speaker 4: He also said that tough nasty game with guys there

428
00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,200
Speaker 4: six seven or less or six eight or less.

429
00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:17,560
Speaker 2: We're scrappy, they do.

430
00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:19,440
Speaker 4: They scrap it out. I wonder if they're going to

431
00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:23,600
Speaker 4: get more foul calls in this era where basically it's

432
00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:27,800
Speaker 4: the least amount of contact allowed in modern NBA history, right,

433
00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,160
Speaker 4: and they've got guys who are firing through like Westbrook

434
00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:33,520
Speaker 4: and that's his thing. I wonder if their their foul

435
00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:36,000
Speaker 4: calls will just bump up a little bit. It might,

436
00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,199
Speaker 4: it might increase it a little bit, and they're going

437
00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:39,880
Speaker 4: to go to the line. People are going to hate

438
00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,040
Speaker 4: them for sure playing against them. Yeah.

439
00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,920
Speaker 2: Marcus Smart was frustrated after the game. Jared Vice on

440
00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:48,000
Speaker 2: The Athletic had some quotes from him, and he was saying,

441
00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,560
Speaker 2: how just frustrating it is that Westbrook is allowed to

442
00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,119
Speaker 2: do that little elbow hook to get around a guy

443
00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:54,840
Speaker 2: on post ups. He did do it like three or

444
00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,440
Speaker 2: four times. It should technically, if you know, when you

445
00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,240
Speaker 2: do that, it should be an offensive foul. But all

446
00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,280
Speaker 2: make Yeah, no, for sure, But Smart's like, come on, like,

447
00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:06,560
Speaker 2: you can't spin around me. No, it happens on both ends.

448
00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:08,560
Speaker 2: I get that, but it's got to be frustrating being,

449
00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:10,800
Speaker 2: you know, an elite defender and playing a guy like

450
00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,320
Speaker 2: Westbrook and the Rockets, it would be when the whistle

451
00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:14,480
Speaker 2: is a little hit and miss.

452
00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:16,680
Speaker 5: Why would Marcus Smart ever expect to get a foul

453
00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:20,040
Speaker 5: call the guys flopping around every single possession. So if

454
00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,480
Speaker 5: he's if he's saying the reps are missing something, I

455
00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,000
Speaker 5: don't buy it, buddy, because you're trying to get every call.

456
00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:27,800
Speaker 5: So it probably plays against you, as we've talked about

457
00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:31,000
Speaker 5: with every player like that over the course of NBA history.

458
00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:33,160
Speaker 5: But you got to give a tip of the cap

459
00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,119
Speaker 5: to both Westbrook and to Mike D'Antoni because they let

460
00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,320
Speaker 5: him be Westbrook when he came in and played with

461
00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:40,679
Speaker 5: the Rockets that like, take some threes, play in our

462
00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,639
Speaker 5: system the way you would play, and everybody realized it

463
00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,280
Speaker 5: wasn't working. So Westbrook, to his credit, stop shooting threes.

464
00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:48,800
Speaker 5: He has become their Draymond Green really, and d'An toni

465
00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:53,119
Speaker 5: has allowed him to face those four on threes, let

466
00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:56,800
Speaker 5: him be a playmaker. Because when teams started double teaming

467
00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:00,359
Speaker 5: James Harden, they were okay with Westbrook beating it because

468
00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,240
Speaker 5: he wasn't hadn't figured out the correct.

469
00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:02,399
Speaker 4: Way to do it.

470
00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,879
Speaker 5: But now he has exactly figured out in what form

471
00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,359
Speaker 5: he should be playing for the Rockets, and it's almost

472
00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,240
Speaker 5: as a four. I mean, I know he's their point guard,

473
00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:13,320
Speaker 5: he's kind of their two guard, but he's also their

474
00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:15,960
Speaker 5: four because he's attacking inside and he's making most of

475
00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,160
Speaker 5: his plays from inside the three point line.

476
00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:19,240
Speaker 2: I don't know.

477
00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:25,000
Speaker 5: I mean, he's like an exactly, but you know, I mean,

478
00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:26,600
Speaker 5: even my dad was texting me, he's like, small ball

479
00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:28,320
Speaker 5: doesn't win in the playoffs. I was like, I remember

480
00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,760
Speaker 5: twenty fifteen, it was five years ago the Warriors won

481
00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,320
Speaker 5: a title playing small ball. This is the same setup,

482
00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:34,879
Speaker 5: except for they don't start a big.

483
00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:38,440
Speaker 2: Guy for six minutes. Yeah, and I guess they don't

484
00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:39,360
Speaker 2: have a laugh.

485
00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:41,280
Speaker 5: That's what I think is they don't have the Klay Thompson.

486
00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:45,120
Speaker 5: They have Curry and Harden. That's about equivalent. I think

487
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,560
Speaker 5: Westbrook is Draymond offensively and then PJ. Tucker is there

488
00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,520
Speaker 5: Draymond defensively, throwing a little Covington there. They just don't

489
00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:53,840
Speaker 5: have the big guard who can actually guard somebody and

490
00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 5: then give you twenty five on the offensive.

491
00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,159
Speaker 4: Endoge was a bigger part of that team. Then I

492
00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,280
Speaker 4: think you're letting On. Not in the finals in that

493
00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:04,560
Speaker 4: one specific series, yeah, but throughout the whole playoffs he

494
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,440
Speaker 4: played a lot. They they they come up.

495
00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,520
Speaker 2: With the reason they won was because of the death lineup.

496
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, in the finals for sure, and in those last

497
00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,160
Speaker 4: few games. But they got there with Andrew Boget being

498
00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:17,280
Speaker 4: a twenty twenty five minute game guy.

499
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:20,400
Speaker 2: Maybe the Rockets will go get Andrew Boget then they.

500
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,639
Speaker 4: Need to go. Well, would help. But but when they

501
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 4: when they say like, hey, we're tough. All these six

502
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:26,640
Speaker 4: to six seven six seven six eight guys are tough,

503
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 4: HI buy it. Like Robert Covington and PJ. Tucker and

504
00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:34,480
Speaker 4: Russell Westbrook, they're tough dudes. And James Harden he doesn't

505
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 4: love defense, but you know when he that booty is

506
00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:38,679
Speaker 4: down in the post and he can go he can

507
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,399
Speaker 4: guard guys down there to some degree. So they it

508
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:44,920
Speaker 4: suits them. But yeah, I think they would like a

509
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,520
Speaker 4: guy to just body when it gets down to it,

510
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:52,639
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis and Nikola Jokicic like it would when teams

511
00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,959
Speaker 4: I understand what Steve Kirby is saying, when teams are

512
00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:00,200
Speaker 4: prepared to get back on defense, like teams aren't really

513
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,920
Speaker 4: ready to run with this team in a regular season game,

514
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 4: but they'll be ready in a seven game set. And yeah,

515
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 4: the second chance points is an issue on the defensive glass,

516
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,840
Speaker 4: but they've they've unlocked Westbrook and that's that's the biggest thing. Okay,

517
00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 4: see didn't find a way to make him better in

518
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 4: those last couple of years. He went out with a

519
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:23,679
Speaker 4: whimper in the first round, and he's optimal Westbrook right now.

520
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,719
Speaker 2: It's not like the Celtics were big there last night, either, right,

521
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:28,080
Speaker 2: I mean this is the funny part. I saw some

522
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 2: Celtics fans tweeting this. It's like, hey, we're playing super

523
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,120
Speaker 2: small ball here too. Daniel Tice is our biggest guy.

524
00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 2: He's six eight, then Covington, Yeah, if he's that, so

525
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:40,959
Speaker 2: there's a lot And like it's not like cancer got

526
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,560
Speaker 2: a ton of minutes or anything like that. So yeah,

527
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:45,800
Speaker 2: it was a lot of small guards it or smaller guys.

528
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:47,719
Speaker 2: I mean, they're still giants compared to all of us,

529
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 2: but you know what I'm talking about. They go The

530
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 2: Celtics couldn't hit a three either in this one. You know,

531
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,359
Speaker 2: Jalen Brown was fine, but Tatum o for seven, one

532
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 2: of his worst games. In a long time because he

533
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:59,160
Speaker 2: had been on such a tear and playing really really well,

534
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 2: and then kemb to one of six, five or seventeen

535
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,000
Speaker 2: overall from the floor. Guys, could those two your your

536
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 2: sort of go to scores? I know, Hayward, they have

537
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 2: a lot of guys because they had Hayward and Brown

538
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 2: performing well. But you're gonna need what would help if

539
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,480
Speaker 2: one of your twenty plus point per game scorers could

540
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 2: hit a shot on that night. But good, good Rockets win.

541
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 4: The Rockets weren't hitting no good percentage of their threes.

542
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 2: It was ugly at times.

543
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:22,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, they just took a lot of them, and so

544
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 4: the math helped. And they don't turn the ball over,

545
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 4: which is kind of surprising, and this this five out system,

546
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,119
Speaker 4: they only have fourteen turnovers. They've had really lowd I

547
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 4: think they had a six turnover game in this little

548
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,880
Speaker 4: run since they've started. They've they take care of the ball.

549
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 4: I mean, they don't pass as much, I guess, and

550
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,480
Speaker 4: that helps. So it's just we're just driving.

551
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 2: Oh man, we had a couple amazing justin Bieber dribbles. Oh,

552
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 2: I mean, I know Harden does it every game, but

553
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,119
Speaker 2: put it like fifteen times through his legs and then

554
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 2: it just went to the rockets. Yeah the other Yeah,

555
00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 2: it's crazy to see the Bieber hadn't seen that in

556
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,120
Speaker 2: a while. All Right, our next game, Zion Williamson leads

557
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 2: the Pelicans to a key win over the Blazers NLP

558
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 2: one thirty eight, PR one seventeen, Zion Williamson's first thirty

559
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,680
Speaker 2: point performance. He sprung loose for thirty one points in

560
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 2: barely twenty eight minutes. And as I saw Big Biz

561
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 2: on Twitter say last night, Zion had Hassan waitside in

562
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 2: the torture rack tonight he was killing him.

563
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: He's really starting to feel comfortable getting to the post, turning,

564
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 1: putting the ball on the ground and just blasting inside.

565
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a very encouraging look right now.

566
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:38,199
Speaker 1: And a huge win against the team they're competing against

567
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:39,880
Speaker 1: four potentially that eight spot.

568
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 2: Absolutely massive win.

569
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,159
Speaker 1: And they came back to they were down early and

570
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 1: then blew the game open in the third quarter. There

571
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,200
Speaker 1: really is when it turned. But what I just loved

572
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,640
Speaker 1: is Zion he's feeling his way into this team. He's

573
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 1: not trying to dominate, not trying to take over, but

574
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,160
Speaker 1: now he's feeling confident, and that body is looking good.

575
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 1: He's got those He got up for an enormous sally too,

576
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's like he's got jets in his feet.

577
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: He just he detonates off the I don't.

578
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 5: Know if he's given a report recently on what his

579
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 5: vertical is, because when he was like a week back,

580
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,439
Speaker 5: he said, I'm only jumping about thirty inches right now.

581
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,720
Speaker 5: I'd like to get back to forty five. And that

582
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,879
Speaker 5: oop down the base line that looked like it was

583
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 5: about forty eight.

584
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 2: I don't know.

585
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 5: He was flying and people are just jones in for

586
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 5: that first huge Zion highlight because that was a good dunk.

587
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,200
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, But you get the tweet from the Pelicans

588
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 5: and they're like, the backboard is shaking quite a bit.

589
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 4: Cool.

590
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,919
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, okay, give me a little bit more

591
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 2: spice than that. It was shaking. I will give that.

592
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 2: But you're right, we're waiting for him to catch a

593
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 2: body if possible. You know, people pointed out he didn't

594
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 2: do a ton of that at Duke, right, I mean,

595
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 2: he wasn't dunking on guys fair enough. He was doing that,

596
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 2: yeah right right, And that'll come, that'll come he's only

597
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 2: what is ninth game maybe? What do we at ten games? Maybe?

598
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 2: And he's playing well six of his nine board last

599
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 2: night too. On the offensive end. We've talked about it

600
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 2: time and time again. It's just like it's an unbelievable

601
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,640
Speaker 2: ability to just miss it or somebody does miss a shot,

602
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 2: and to just beat everybody to the ball somehow, despite

603
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 2: looking like he's the slowest.

604
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 1: Guy out there, and if someone else has got it,

605
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: he's just gonna steal it if he can.

606
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, it's awesome. It's just awesome watching him. And

607
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,199
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's just his strictly his size,

608
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,399
Speaker 4: but seeing a guy go from zero to one hundred

609
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,159
Speaker 4: that quick is just amazing to watch. There's not in

610
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 4: the stats. You got to watch the games. The ratings

611
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 4: are going to go up. Zion Wills is going to

612
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 4: bring those ratings up. He's just too fast for bigs,

613
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 4: it's too strong for wings, and that combo is is deadly.

614
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 4: And Josh Hart I think is he's just playing well.

615
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 4: He's just like their glue guy, and I think he's

616
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 4: sort of that guy that kind of has to be

617
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 4: on the floor at times, like part of their winning lineup.

618
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,120
Speaker 4: With Zion and Drew and Brandon Ingram when he comes back,

619
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,159
Speaker 4: those four guys, and then you know, you throw in

620
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 4: somebody else. If they are going big, it's Favors or

621
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 4: Hayes or Melly even or then Lonzo or Reddick. If

622
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 4: they go small, like Josh Hart just does a lot.

623
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 4: He's just a guy that they when nobody talks about.

624
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 4: But it'd be nice if he was like three inches taller.

625
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 4: But he's great.

626
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 2: Saw the pole going around last night which team would

627
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 2: you like to see as the eighth seed? And it

628
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 2: was obviously the Grizzlies, who are currently in that spot,

629
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 2: And it was the Pelicans as an option, and it

630
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 2: was the Blazers as an option, and I forget the

631
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 2: four team.

632
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 1: Maybe it was the Spurs.

633
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 2: I assume it was yeah, And I you know, I

634
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 2: clicked through just to see what the results were at

635
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 2: the time, and it shocked me. And maybe it's because

636
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 2: Zion just had a monster game and people are high

637
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 2: on it right now or at the moment, but it

638
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,400
Speaker 2: was like heavily favored to the Pelicans. But I want

639
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 2: to know, like, if you guys were clicking on that pole,

640
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 2: do you want Zion? Do you want John Morant. Do

641
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,640
Speaker 2: you want Dame? I mean that like I saw people

642
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 2: in the thread saying, what about Dame? Man, come on,

643
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 2: like he's proven it time and time again. Let the

644
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 2: kids wait a year or two. Let's see if he

645
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,159
Speaker 2: can take down Lebron and the Lakers. Who would you

646
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 2: pick right now as of today's wrong? I don't want

647
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,880
Speaker 2: the Spurs. I'll tell you that. Sorry that one. Probably

648
00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 2: give me the Pelicans.

649
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 5: Man, We've missed out on seeing Zion for half a

650
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 5: season extended as long as you possibly interesting?

651
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 2: Interesting?

652
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:04,120
Speaker 4: Yeah.

653
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough because you want to share respect to Dame,

654
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: especially as I had a good win over the Lakers recently.

655
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,120
Speaker 1: If they were to have made them in the first round,

656
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: I mean, put up a fight maybe, yeah, yeah, because

657
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: you think the other teams will probably probably get swept.

658
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: I would think against the Lakers, but I think the

659
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 1: Blazers could maybe extended. But listen, you want to see excitement,

660
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 1: give me ja Ja. I don't want Jah.

661
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 4: It's strange to see a guy in Zion Williamson, who

662
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,919
Speaker 4: is the best prospect among the rookie class, play only

663
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,719
Speaker 4: nine games and not win Rookie of the Year. Right,

664
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 4: I would find it where John Morant's going to lift

665
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 4: the trophy at the end of the year. But Zion

666
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 4: Williamson is the guy that most people would take. I

667
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,479
Speaker 4: guess you'd be worried about injuries, but he's a better prospect, right,

668
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 4: So that's that's that's strange. I think most people would

669
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 4: want to see Zion in the playoffs. I think I

670
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 4: would jump in on that, but John Moran.

671
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 2: Is, Yeah, I'm going Grizzlies. I'm going Grizzlies. I'm going

672
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 2: John Morant because he'll be just as fun. But yeah,

673
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 2: you can't go wrong with any of those three. Dame

674
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 2: is going to maybe give you a series and another

675
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 2: game winner.

676
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 4: Should we get so, uh, somebody else can join. Want

677
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 4: to watch Chris Paul he.

678
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 2: Wants rocket sunder. Yeah, that's that to happen, and I

679
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 2: guess it possibly could. One more thing was Ion. If

680
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 2: the NBA wants to help their ratings, guys, all right,

681
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 2: they got to take a page out of the WWE

682
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 2: playbook here. I've been thinking about this after that big

683
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 2: dunk off the law right that was rocking the rim.

684
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 2: We gotta we gotta rig a Pelicans stanchion or the

685
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 2: net or whatever to break on the next big Zion dunk.

686
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 2: Take it back to Shack. Let's do it. That'll get

687
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 2: everybody going crazy. And I don't care if you set

688
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 2: it up and you rig it to do it, because

689
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 2: I know they're like basically unbreakable now because they had

690
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 2: to change them after Shaq was doing it. But let's

691
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,239
Speaker 2: go back to Shack's ninety three rookie season. I mean,

692
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 2: you guys remember the one. Well, the first one was

693
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 2: against the Suns and did the put back and that

694
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 2: was when the thing just like the hydraulic system, like

695
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 2: let go and it just folded on itself and then

696
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 2: you head not long later the one where he nearly

697
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 2: decapitated himself with the shot clock and you just dropped

698
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 2: it on his head. I'm the first gay that you

699
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 2: can imagine breaking a hoop since Shack. Why Dwight White,

700
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 2: Dwight good call. Yeah, Zion's right there, Yeah, with the

701
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 2: pure power. Yeah, but let's do it.

702
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 4: I don't know, big one, Yeah, let's do it, big boy.

703
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 4: Sean Camp I think could have done it. That's the

704
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 4: same time a Shack, but like not like the best

705
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 4: dunking Sean Camp like the.

706
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 2: Yeah.

707
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: Speaking of though, the Pelicans there last night. That was

708
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: the most the crowd has been going crazy since I

709
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: think that first game against the Spurs. Yeah, and that's

710
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: important for New Orleans, but one of the worst attended

711
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: teams for years. Even Anthony Davis couldn't really generate that

712
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: sort of buzz. I think Zion is creating it and

713
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,239
Speaker 1: getting a big win and getting some highlight plays out

714
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: of your star man, it just changes everything.

715
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 4: Yep. And Portland's good play in Memphis tonight, So that's

716
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 4: another another big one right there.

717
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 2: Well, the team I guess nobody wants to see in

718
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 2: the playoffs, the Spurs. They did start their five game slide.

719
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 5: Usually that's like a complet o. Nobody wants to see

720
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 5: this team in the playoffs. They could be a tough

721
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 5: first round matchup. No, nobody wants to see this teams.

722
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 2: We're just done. You know. It's like they're like a

723
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 2: soap opera. It's like it's just been on the air.

724
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 2: The General Hospital needs new blood air like it's fine.

725
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 2: I guess I don't watch it, but you know, i'd

726
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 2: like to see something new.

727
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 4: J got anything to say about that? Yeah? About what?

728
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 2: I don't know?

729
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: The hospital?

730
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 2: What do you watch again Coronation Street the Spurs or

731
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 2: Coronation Street in my way, because.

732
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 6: They just go and go and yeah yeah, and it's

733
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 6: like sixtieth season and at certain.

734
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 2: Point you're like, okay, you just watch it because you're

735
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 2: watching it. I mean, it's fine.

736
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 6: That's that's that's where they diverge because Coronation Street is

737
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 6: infinitely more entertaining the Spurs.

738
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 2: And the survivor. I don't know. Yeah maybe, but they

739
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 2: got to win was the whole point of that. They beat. Okay,

740
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 2: see Spurs did so they snapped that five game slide

741
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 2: one fourteen o six, they stopped the bleeding. I mean,

742
00:31:58,120 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 2: I don't think we'll go along on this, but I

743
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 2: will say Lamar becaus Aldridge is uh, you know, doing

744
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 2: his best to keep the Spurs streak of making the

745
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 2: playoffs alive. He really is balling out. He had twenty

746
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 2: five and fourteen and I thought he was cooking Adams

747
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter in this one. There's just nothing

748
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 2: he can do with that stupid high release and you

749
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 2: can't you can't block it. So if he's got it going,

750
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 2: he's scoring.

751
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 4: So that's when the old dudes come out to play, right.

752
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 4: It's the calendar is turned. All right, let's let's turn

753
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 4: it on here a little bit. And I didn't get

754
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 4: named to the All Star Game. There's a bunch of

755
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 4: dudes doing that, like Bradley Beale who are on fire. Yeah.

756
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 2: And it's like that game or two before the All

757
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 2: Star break two and these guys are going to have

758
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 2: like eight or nine days off. You want to end

759
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 2: with the win before you go, you know, hit the

760
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 2: island right for for a week long vacation. You want

761
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 2: to at least have that fresh in your memory. I

762
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 2: think at least I would. I think they would all

763
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 2: want to too. You wouldn't want to go out with

764
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 2: a loss, like leaving the gym. You know, you gotta

765
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 2: leave on a make right, you know what I'm talking about?

766
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get you, I get you. The Spurs they like,

767
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: you know, they lose in Denver the night before, you know,

768
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: now they go to Okay see and you think the

769
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: Thunder of being playing so well, like the Thunder definitely

770
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: gonna win this game, and the Spurs just just keep

771
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: that alive last night as the Pelicans get a huge one,

772
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: they just keep themselves in that race. Right, So you know,

773
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,479
Speaker 1: the Spurs are going to be going until eighty two,

774
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: eighty second game in the season. They'll still be fighting

775
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: just to get in the playoffs and annoy everyone.

776
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 2: They needed that one. All right, we will be stepping

777
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 2: on the beach a little later today with that mail bag.

778
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 2: I think we missed one game there, skeets. Yeah.

779
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 5: Then the chase for the nine seed and the snub

780
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 5: off Bradley Beal versus Zach Lavine.

781
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 2: That's truly Buith dead monster games. All right, that's enough? Yeah,

782
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 2: moving on, Eh, the Wizards beat the Bulls.

783
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, but zach Lavine beat Bradley Beal and that's all

784
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 5: that really matters. Right, Honestly, there's not enough Chicago. There's

785
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 5: not enough Chicago and the Chicago All Star they All

786
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 5: Star Weekend. It's a slap in the face to one

787
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 5: of the most historic franchises in the league to have

788
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 5: a guy just be in the three point contest. They

789
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 5: don't have anybody for any other thing the entire weekend.

790
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, because Derek Grows backed out.

791
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 2: He's not even a ball.

792
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.

793
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 5: Why didn't you put in Kobe White to the rising Stars?

794
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 5: Why didn't you put them into the skills Challenge? Nobody

795
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 5: cares about those things at all. Give us a bull,

796
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 5: give us something the root for.

797
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 2: Well, you did get Wendell Carter junior name to the team,

798
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,240
Speaker 2: even though it was you better wear a nice.

799
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 4: Suit to the game. Have there been more teams outrage

800
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 4: this year that their guys didn't get in the Rising

801
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,240
Speaker 4: Stars Challenge than ever? Like, there's a lot of teams.

802
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 5: I mean, you see Kobe White last night fourteen points

803
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:23,240
Speaker 5: on fourteen shots.

804
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 2: Oh, taking it personal.

805
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 4: Then there's three Charlotte Hornets in that game you could

806
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,879
Speaker 4: squeeze in a bowl or who else has been met?

807
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 4: There's been lots of people who are.

808
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 2: Mat Oh, yeah, you're right, Like, we've never seen someone

809
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 2: take to Instagram live and tell the lead oh Jackson.

810
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 2: I mean that's we've never seen that. With the Rising

811
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 2: Stars game, I'll tell you that. Yeah, people took it personal.

812
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 2: I love it all right. What I was gonna say is, yeah,

813
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 2: we'll step it on the beach later today. But we've

814
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 2: got a little teas here for you guys. Get everybody

815
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 2: in the mood. This one from Eddie p He no dunkers.

816
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 2: In January, the NBA released a video of the plays

817
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 2: of the decade, and one of them was at Spruk

818
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,240
Speaker 2: game winner. When he scored the basket, I saw Dematas

819
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 2: Simonis jump into his arms and completely forgot he started

820
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 2: his career with the Thunder. Everyone always talks about which

821
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 2: players ended their careers with different teams, But which players

822
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 2: do you forget the original team they started with? For me,

823
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 2: it's Rip Hamilton with the Wizards or Chris Webber with

824
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 2: the Warriors and the Wizards and keep potting again, that's

825
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 2: from Eddie. It's a good one. Yeah. We always talk

826
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 2: about those guys at the end of their career, like

827
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 2: and they latch onto a team, maybe to try to

828
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 2: win a ring or whatever. But what about those guys

829
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 2: that you're like, oh, yeah, they they played there. Yeah,

830
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:35,479
Speaker 2: you just sort of forget.

831
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: It's got a couple here you You always think of

832
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 1: Jaylen Rose as an Indiana Pisa. He started with the

833
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets.

834
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one.

835
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, for a couple of seasons played for Chicago. Another

836
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,240
Speaker 1: guy who you think of from Indiana paces Jermaine O'Neill.

837
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: Start as a high schooler. I believe he came out

838
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: of and then h last guy you think of as

839
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: a Piston mainly I think.

840
00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,320
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna guess Ben Wallace No, oh.

841
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, started with Boston and Toronto in his first

842
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: season there, so and he was with Minnesota too, that's right, yeah, yeah,

843
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: all three.

844
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 2: Ben Wallace played for the Washington Bullets. Yes, yep, not

845
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 2: the Wizards, yeah, the Bullets. So yeah, I put him

846
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 2: down on my list. What do you guys got?

847
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 5: How about Steve Nash's first stint with the Suns two

848
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 5: seasons that he played there, basically never did much of anything,

849
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 5: went to Dallas, turned it on, and then went back

850
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 5: to Phoenix and became an MVP back to back season.

851
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 5: It's pretty incredible. I also think it's very weird when

852
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 5: you see a picture or a card of Gary Payton

853
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 5: wearing number two for the Seattle SuperSonics because he was

854
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 5: twenty for his entire career after that. So that's a

855
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 5: weird one to me. Also, we were blessed to see

856
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 5: Andrew Wiggins' biggest highlight. That's a Cleveland Cavalier that spin

857
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 5: move on the baseline for a two handed dunk during

858
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 5: Summer League. He was traded after Summer League, but he

859
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 5: was a cab for a second.

860
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: There's a good I always thought about that one too.

861
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: I was wondering, has there ever been a player play

862
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 1: for a summer league team but never played for their

863
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,919
Speaker 1: actual team since then? I mean a main a main player,

864
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, not a number one pick. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

865
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: good ones. Yeah. Tim Hardaway too, like Gary Payton, his

866
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: first season was number five weird in Golden State, and

867
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: then he went to number ten.

868
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one. I put down Kyle Lowry

869
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 2: playing for the Grizzlies at the start of his career

870
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 2: because obviously he's mister Raptor. Now probably will many I

871
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 2: agree with consider him the greatest raptor of all time.

872
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:25,439
Speaker 2: He's gonna go down at least as one of the best.

873
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 2: But yeah, he played with the Grizzlies, and then I

874
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 2: know the Rockets were there too, but grizz that's just strange.

875
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 2: And then this one's a weird one. Okay, but hear

876
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 2: me out. It's weird because he played nine seasons with

877
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 2: them at the start of his career, but then went

878
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 2: to a team where I only think of him as

879
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 2: a Chicago Bull Do you know who I'm talking about?

880
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 2: Played nine I think he was an All Star as

881
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 2: a rookie. Ron Harper No.

882
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 1: The Stars, a rookie.

883
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe that's correct. Funky okay here, you got

884
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 2: it right away. It's got one of the craziest shots

885
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 2: in NBA history. Bill Bill right, Yeah, Bill Cartwright was

886
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:02,399
Speaker 2: a nick.

887
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: Yeah.

888
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's like, I guess that that shows my

889
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 2: age and yeah, you know when I'm watching, But like

890
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 2: I just I can't wrap my head around him being

891
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 2: a nick for that long too and actually having some

892
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 2: success there. Yeah, but he's he's a bull to me

893
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 2: for life. Tass he got anyone not.

894
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 4: At the beginning of their career. I always forget Derek

895
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 4: Fisher played in the middle of his career with the

896
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 4: Utah Jazz.

897
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: I just and the Warriors.

898
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 4: Was yeah, you got some time with the Warriors too,

899
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 4: and he is a Laker for life. Just forget about that.

900
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 4: This is prime of his career, prime thirty two playing

901
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 4: with the Jazz. But yeah, forget about that.

902
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, let us know. I'm sure you've got some good answers.

903
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 2: Hit us up on Twitter hashtag no dunks at No

904
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 2: dunks inc. Those guys that uh played for sort of

905
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 2: weird teams at the start of their career that you

906
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 2: just sort of forget about.

907
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 4: Let me throw this email in here real quick, because

908
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 4: I don't want to pass it by. I don't want

909
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 4: to allow it to go by. Here. On the opening

910
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 4: night of Survivor forty Winners at War, Heino Tribes, I

911
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 4: need your winner pick on the next beach stepping pot

912
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 4: for Survivor for forty Winners at War, and now is

913
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 4: the best time to jump in. That's true, Adam, is true.

914
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 4: So do you guys want to save it? Do you

915
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,800
Speaker 4: want this to be a tease of a tease for

916
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 4: the step in on the beach bar? Or you want

917
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 4: to do it right here, right now?

918
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 2: Let's do it now, Let's do it now. JD you

919
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 2: go ahead. Who you got Survivor forty Winners at War?

920
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 2: Twenty winners of the game are back.

921
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 6: You can put me down for it. Natalie Anderson ooh,

922
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 6: two names.

923
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 2: I'll go two names as well. Adam Kleine, Oh wow.

924
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 2: Well you think the streak of men winning continues that

925
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 2: it would be get up to like, I don't know

926
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 2: four or five seasons in a row. Honestly, I just

927
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 2: know who you're gonna pick. I don't want to pick

928
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 2: the same prime Do you like you like my pick.

929
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 2: I do like, yeah, yeah, gimme even though I'm cheering

930
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 2: for and cheer for a lot of people, because I

931
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 2: love half of these people cheering for youle Big Team

932
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 2: mule Guy Tyson one of the funniest reality television characters

933
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 2: of all time, Tyson Wendell Jeremy love them, but give

934
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 2: me Kim Spradland. It's a good pick, lying low and

935
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 2: she played in the season no one even remembers. Everyone says, oh,

936
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 2: that was the worst season ever. She dominated it though.

937
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 2: One World Kim Spradland, Oh Soup two hour premiere two.

938
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 6: Is this the second time she's playing, Yes, I do believe. Yeah,

939
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 6: so this is the first time she's going to have

940
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 6: two separate tribes to deal with.

941
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, with that One World twist, well, hell, we

942
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 2: got fire tokens to figure out. Uh, they're playing for

943
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,280
Speaker 2: two million this year, guys, instead of one million, biggest

944
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 2: prize in reality TV history.

945
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 4: Man, wow, it is.

946
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 2: It's gonna be awesome.

947
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 4: This isn't the biggest prize.

948
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:44,919
Speaker 2: Love yes Forever, followed by.

949
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 4: Question quick questions about your picks. Okay, well you didn't

950
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 4: pick him Skates, but you said ele is that?

951
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 2: Yeah?

952
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 4: You first name that's his first name. Yeah, is that

953
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 4: or is that Sergio ele? Yeah?

954
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 2: Why you well, actually don't know his last name. One

955
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 2: you'll thank you. Yeah. He was super strategic. Now, he

956
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 2: played on a very controversial season Survivor because they decided

957
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 2: this was like, oh boy, there's a long time ago

958
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 2: down thirteen. Yeah yeah, cook Islands to divide the tribes

959
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 2: by race. Huh yeah. So you know it was controversial.

960
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,320
Speaker 2: It was, and there was a lot of blowback to it,

961
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 2: and he didn't even like it. A lot of the

962
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 2: people that were out there didn't like that idea, but

963
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 2: he went on to win. He's very strategic, very likable.

964
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 4: Only a one time guy.

965
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 2: He is also a one time guy. Yeah, yeah, that's

966
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 2: that's true. We got Ben, we got Boston Rob playing

967
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 2: for his fifth time. Yeah. Wow, he's won once, but

968
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,320
Speaker 2: his wife won the other one, so he got to

969
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 2: the final with her in the first time they met and.

970
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 4: They're still married.

971
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:48,399
Speaker 2: They got four kids, I think.

972
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 4: Yeah.

973
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kim Spradlet's had three kids since winning the last time.

974
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 4: Yeah. Look at this.

975
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 2: Wendell. You know, he's just still selling his his carpentry work.

976
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 2: Don't know if he has any it's met Wendell. H

977
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 2: I don't think it does.

978
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 4: Met Wendell, Yeah, Met.

979
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:05,839
Speaker 2: Wendell in Aksky, I've said this before. He's super, super

980
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 2: nice guy.

981
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 4: Mister.

982
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:12,240
Speaker 2: Yeh uh. While we're talking survivors, though, go to JD's

983
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 2: Twitter page. I think that would be the easiest way. Sure, Yeah,

984
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 2: at Starters JD.

985
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 6: Yep, and Starters JD.

986
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 2: Look for Look for JD's Twitter account because he has posted, Uh,

987
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 2: I guess late last night or early this morning, a

988
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 2: little test. You were testing out the cameras.

989
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 6: It's the cameras that we're gonna use for this show

990
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:30,280
Speaker 6: in the coming weeks.

991
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 2: And you did a little Survivor slash Bachelor podcast with

992
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 2: your son.

993
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 4: My son Jackson.

994
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 6: So tune in to see who Jackson picks.

995
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 2: Okay, wow, And so you guys did like twenty five minutes.

996
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,280
Speaker 6: That's twenty six minutes, Oh my goodness.

997
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 2: And what's it called.

998
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 6: It's called The Buff Bros. That's just just straight up

999
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,800
Speaker 6: buff Bros. No, the Buffer Buff Pros.

1000
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 2: That's a damn good survivor podcast. I am so check

1001
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 2: that out.

1002
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 6: Lincoln, No, he doesn't really that into it. Yeah, he'll

1003
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 6: sit down for a bit and then he just takes

1004
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 6: off and starts playing the guitar.

1005
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 4: He's like that, it's like Survivor, just picking Natalie Anderson

1006
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 4: and not her twin Nadia Anderson.

1007
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 6: Right, they played together, she went out first, went first.

1008
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 4: So yeah, so I guess that's that would make sense

1009
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 4: that they all have to be winners that are playing

1010
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 4: in this week.

1011
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 2: When the winners at war never been done before. You're

1012
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 2: coming over to us.

1013
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 5: We usually watched the first Raptors playoff game at your house,

1014
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 5: but this is like the playoffs for us.

1015
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 2: We watch the winners, but.

1016
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 4: You guys don't watch it live.

1017
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 2: Dude, Yeah, well tonight you bet your but we're watching How.

1018
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 4: Long is this thing?

1019
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:39,919
Speaker 2: Tonight?

1020
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:41,720
Speaker 5: We'll pause it and see if we can see anybody

1021
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 5: hanging out in the jungle in the background watching.

1022
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 2: Hey John Leby, Oh yeah, that's cool.

1023
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:51,879
Speaker 4: You see exacts sometimes, that's pretty cool.

1024
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 2: The fans are there, it's a big season. At least

1025
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 2: watch it. If you're not coming over, at least.

1026
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 4: Watching give you hours. I'm gonna record it.

1027
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: No. If he goes on playing, but I'm going to

1028
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: try to play bassball, then there might be a couple

1029
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: of spots.

1030
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to watch it.

1031
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 4: From here.

1032
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to tweet of.

1033
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 1: The night.

1034
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 4: Tweed overnight Wow Twitter.

1035
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: Okay, there's a bit of a story behind today's tweet,

1036
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: and in an effort to improve the image surrounding the franchise,

1037
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: the New York Nicks recently hired branding consultant Steve Stout. Now,

1038
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: Stout has a successful career as a branding consult with

1039
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 1: various big name companies such as State Farm, McDonald's, and

1040
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: is credited with helping market famous musicians and entertainers such

1041
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: as Mary J. Blige and Nas Yesterday, what's his name Nasa? Nas? Anyway,

1042
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: he has a market in more that well to everybody yesterday.

1043
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: Steve Stout appeared on ESPN's First Take to discuss various

1044
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: aspects of his new role with the Knicks, mostly surrounding

1045
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: branding an image, but he also brought up this coat, yes,

1046
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: so that implied that Stout would have some input and

1047
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: say on personnel decisions such as players and coaches. However, that,

1048
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: according to the Knicks, isn't a part of his job description,

1049
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: as they quickly released a statement after the show that read,

1050
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: while Steve Stout is a valued contributed to the Knicks,

1051
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,840
Speaker 1: marketing and branding efforts. He does not speak on behalf

1052
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:55,720
Speaker 1: of New York Knicks personnel and basketball operations. Any decisions

1053
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: regarding the operations of the team will be made by

1054
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: the new president of the New York Knicks, which Stout

1055
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: also added his own remarks to that press release by saying,

1056
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:06,919
Speaker 1: in my excitement to defend the Knicks on Live TV today,

1057
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: I inadvertently insinuated about Nick's personnel. I look forward to

1058
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,320
Speaker 1: working with Knicks management to elevate the great Knicks brand

1059
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 1: moving forward. So their first sort of moment with their

1060
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: branding and sol didn't go all that well.

1061
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,280
Speaker 2: It's only up from here though it has to be really.

1062
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: Doesn't it. But it's an interesting, you know, position that

1063
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: he's in because clearly the Knicks do have a bad

1064
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,320
Speaker 1: reputation right now. It looks like a disaster, disastrous franchise.

1065
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: And also on that show on the ESPN's first take, Yes,

1066
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw it or not, but

1067
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 1: I think he's taking some heat Steve Stout from maybe

1068
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: being behind the firing of Steve Mills, which he clarified

1069
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 1: he said, I had nothing to do with that, But

1070
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 1: I think that's maybe.

1071
00:46:53,040 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 2: Too many, damn Steves anyway, I in that case, we'll

1072
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:05,319
Speaker 2: see where things go from here.

1073
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,240
Speaker 1: But yes, you know the Knicks.

1074
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 2: Just how many press releases have the Knicks release this year? Well?

1075
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 4: What are we at?

1076
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 5: Four?

1077
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 2: At least?

1078
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: Well, well, if you go back to the draft last

1079
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 1: year or free agency, let's include that, we must be

1080
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:19,399
Speaker 1: a four.

1081
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, at least.

1082
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:22,800
Speaker 1: Basically every time they release a press release, they have

1083
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: to have a follow up press release to say we

1084
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: didn't mean that.

1085
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 2: Sorry, Yeah, it's it's amazing, it's amazing. Well, Steve, what

1086
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 2: he sort of compared himself to Drake? Did he not? Well?

1087
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,720
Speaker 1: The position the position of Drake there in in Toronto,

1088
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: and how you you know, bring in some guy who

1089
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: can help sort of market the team.

1090
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I get that, but Drake was He wasn't

1091
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 2: trying to get coaches fired. He was given them massages

1092
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 2: on the sidelines. Yeah, it's a little different.

1093
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: Well, Drake's getting players to sign for other teams too. Yeah,

1094
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: that's why we're saying, is he wrong?

1095
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 4: Though? There is going to be a new coaching staff, right,

1096
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 4: I mean, and I'm not I don't want to positive

1097
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 4: spind the next year, but like you can think you

1098
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 4: can take from that that they are going to get

1099
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:03,919
Speaker 4: a new coaching staff and that maybe he just knows

1100
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 4: that and that he's not really got his fingers on it.

1101
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 1: But he sort of talked about that with with Steve

1102
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: and I and Max Kelluman there about he's going to

1103
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: have he's got a big voice and he's in Dolan's ears,

1104
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: so he's going to have input into those decisions, is

1105
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 1: what I took out of that interview.

1106
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 2: Right, and then the next said no, no, no, no,

1107
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 2: But even maybe it is true. Who knows, but Leon

1108
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 2: Rose he's going to be the president, and Worldwide West

1109
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 2: apparently is not coming with Leon Rose, He's not going

1110
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 2: to be part of the Knicks. I believe Sham's was

1111
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 2: actually the first one to report that.

1112
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:41,800
Speaker 4: So too many cooks, Yeah, too many Steve's not enough Steves.

1113
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,839
Speaker 2: If they hire a coach named Steve, that'll be crazy. Well,

1114
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 2: and the rumors right now floating around at me, and

1115
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:50,720
Speaker 2: it feels like it's always the case with the Knicks.

1116
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 2: Tom Thibodeau and Jeff Van Gundy a rumored.

1117
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 1: To I think Mark Jackson's on that list.

1118
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 4: Oh is he?

1119
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 2: That be a shock? When's Kenny Smith's name for a

1120
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 2: possible GM job. It's always the same names, isn't it?

1121
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 2: Pretty incredible stuff? All right? Good tweet to night early

1122
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,959
Speaker 2: pick them results from a Tuesday we had the Clip

1123
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,479
Speaker 2: Sixers game. Clippers were favored by one and a half,

1124
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 2: but the Sixers won. Hit that money line. Myself, Task

1125
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 2: and Trey all had Philly and they pulled it out.

1126
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 2: So it's a victory for us. The Lee swerved and

1127
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:24,280
Speaker 2: he took the Clips, took the l records for February.

1128
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 2: Task five and two, Trey four and three, Lee three

1129
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 2: and four, and myself I improved to two and five.

1130
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 2: I needed that w bad Task. What we got tonight?

1131
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:38,240
Speaker 4: Tough game for you. Here the Lakers against the Nuggets,

1132
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 4: one versus two in the Western Conference. It's on ESPN.

1133
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 4: Season series is one in one going into this one,

1134
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 4: dave each one on the other's home floor. I do believe, yes,

1135
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 4: And so here we go in Denver the Lakers. It's

1136
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:57,319
Speaker 4: a one and a half point spread. Sorry, I didn't

1137
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 4: mention that the Denver is getting a point and a half.

1138
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:01,759
Speaker 4: So oh, if you have picked Denver, they could lose

1139
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 4: by a point as well and still get the victory.

1140
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 2: Well, that's tough. It is. That's a tough one because

1141
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 2: Stenver has been playing well. Lakers obviously just off a

1142
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 2: dominant win themselves, are they not. Yeah, they beat the

1143
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 2: Suns pretty handily. I think that was their last game.

1144
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 1: They got to die off in between. Yeah, taking the Lakers.

1145
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 2: Wow, Wow, I'll take the Lakers too, Go ahead, Yes, yes,

1146
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 2: I do believe. Uh hmm.

1147
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 5: I want to take the Nuggets. But they got a

1148
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 5: few guys out tonight. No Barton, no Plumbing, no Porter.

1149
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 2: Is that too much? I mean they've been doing that

1150
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 2: for a while, haven't they. Yeah, yeah, Taaks Lakers. All right,

1151
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 2: I'll I'll swerve. I mean, you know, could be the

1152
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 2: end of me here for February. It's gonna be sort

1153
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:47,799
Speaker 2: of a shorter month with the big old Star break.

1154
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:51,319
Speaker 2: But I'll take the Nuggets. They could still technically cover

1155
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 2: even if they all lost by one. So maybe it's

1156
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 2: a close game and we get a Lebron game winner

1157
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 2: or something.

1158
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 4: Like that tonight.

1159
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:57,839
Speaker 1: All right, I haven't had that yet. Have we had

1160
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: anything like a one point ween in one of these games?

1161
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:05,760
Speaker 2: Well, we have, but not maybe in the game winner variety.

1162
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:06,319
Speaker 1: That's what I mean.

1163
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, so maybe we're due.

1164
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 2: All right, I'll take Denver to cover there. You guys

1165
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 2: got the Lakers, they got to win by two points

1166
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 2: or more. Good luck to everybody before we go, just

1167
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 2: wanted to send, you know, from all of us here

1168
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 2: at No Dunks, some strength and love to Kevin O'Connor,

1169
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 2: whose father passed away yesterday. KOC tweeted, my mom and

1170
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 2: I miss him so much, but we're glad he's no

1171
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 2: longer suffering, and that many of you got to know

1172
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 2: what an amazing man he was. We got to know

1173
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 2: how amazing he was from Kevin O'Connor's own words. He

1174
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 2: wrote that great piece for The Ringer talking about him

1175
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 2: and his father's bond over basketball and how they drew

1176
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,479
Speaker 2: them closer. So sending our best to KOC, and also

1177
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 2: sending our best two Raptors commentator Leo Routins, who's getting

1178
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:48,840
Speaker 2: set over the All Star break to have back surgery,

1179
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 2: So here's to a speedy recovery Leo, and again Koc, Leo,

1180
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 2: we love you, and Clipper Brose you heard it here first.

1181
00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 2: Have a great time turn up.

1182
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 4: Love you guys awesome, thanks for joining us, and remember

1183
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 4: Clipper Bros. Are great, but the buff bros are better.

1184
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:07,959
Speaker 2: Embrace the survivor premier people.

1185
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:12,360
Speaker 6: You could stay ooo every day.

1186
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 3: And that you happy every minute.

1187
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 6: It's been so long that your no wanna waiting for.

1188
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 4: It's happened already.

1189
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 3: It's gonna be griovy.