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Speaker 1: Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dungks

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Speaker 1: Podcast presented by Ledger. It's Thursday, February nineteenth, twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: I'm j E. Skeets here at the Cassa to Spurs

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Speaker 1: in Austin, Texas, and alongside me as always tas mellis

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Speaker 1: what's going on Austin. Yeah, it's here at Austin. Next

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Speaker 1: to him, it's my top shot birthday boy, Trey Kirby. Hey.

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Speaker 1: And they say things are bigger in Texas, which is

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Speaker 1: why we brought to super Producers today. Give it up

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Speaker 1: for JD and our guy Esh helping out over there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah. So uh Spurs Week here in Austin, Texas,

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Speaker 1: a week long celebration leading up to two Spurs games

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Speaker 1: here tonight against the Suns, then on Saturday against Kings.

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Speaker 1: The lowly Kings. Show of applause here or sound of applause?

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Speaker 1: Who's going to one of these games here in Austin, Okay?

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Speaker 2: A lot of Kings fans, a lot of Kings fans

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Speaker 2: in the audience.

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Speaker 1: So Cassada Spurs, that's where we're at right now, and

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Speaker 1: this is the spot where it's been going down sort

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Speaker 1: of all week Long presented by Ledger. Shout out to

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Speaker 1: Ledger for bringing the boys here. We swung by here

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Speaker 1: last night to see Keldon Johnson in a little fireside chat.

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Speaker 1: That was cool, and then the coyote showed up and

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Speaker 1: we had a big debate about do his eyes come off?

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Speaker 1: Do they come off? We've seen them come off before,

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Speaker 1: but that coyote last night, we weren't one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: sure because we never saw them come We.

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Speaker 2: Weren't one hundred percent sure. Everybody we wanted to test them.

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Speaker 2: Everybody wanted to step to the coyote and say those

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Speaker 2: eyes come off, but we were all too scared to

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Speaker 2: do it because what if they do then what and

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Speaker 2: what do you do?

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, I think yes, you know classic

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Speaker 1: clip that look they looked secure. I don't think they

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Speaker 1: were coming out. See that's sort of what my working

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Speaker 1: period was. I will find out. Yeah, we'll test them tonight.

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Speaker 1: We're going down to the game tonight to play the

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Speaker 1: see the Spurs. So on today's podcast here we are

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Speaker 1: going to be joined by Spurs play by play announcer

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Speaker 1: Jacob Toby. He's going to join us up here, so

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Speaker 1: we'll do a little Spurs talk. So don't you worry.

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Speaker 1: But and you're wearing a Spurs jersey, I mean I

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Speaker 1: am pandering crowd, no doubt. Well, it's a beautiful jersey

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Speaker 3: I'm glad I didn't wear my my shooting warm up.

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Speaker 3: I've got the teal Spurs one, and we'd be really

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Speaker 1: Speaking of got it here, we did get for the

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Speaker 1: birthday boy a jacket. Do you want to show this

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Speaker 1: to everybody here? Yeah? You guys vamp all ip okay,

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Speaker 1: So again Ledger helping us out with these and hooking

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Speaker 1: us up. So unfortunately we didn't buy this for you trade,

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Speaker 1: but it does look pretty sweet. I think this is

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Speaker 1: a trade type of jack. Oh the back is bare,

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Speaker 1: very nice.

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Speaker 3: Oh my great pop. Yeah, Ledger basketball Division on the back.

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Speaker 1: You'll be seeing this quite a bit. Okay, good, good good.

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Speaker 1: So here's what we're doing here to start this podcast.

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Speaker 1: The season is sixty seven percent complete. Home stretch starts

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Speaker 1: tonight because basketball is finally back in our lives, so

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Speaker 1: lots to be determined here still. But to set the scene,

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do is we're gonna draft NBA's most

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Speaker 1: interesting teams for this final part of the regular season,

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Speaker 1: So you can interpret that any way you want. What

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Speaker 1: interesting to you about said teams. It's your birthday, so

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Speaker 1: it's only right you get to draft first. We'll do

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Speaker 1: a couple of rounds. TK get a startup. Oh the

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Speaker 1: pick is in. Wow, I can't believe it. We brought

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Speaker 1: our sound effects with us, literally shocking. This is all

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Speaker 1: I wanted when I turned forty two. I gotta go

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Speaker 1: first in the draft of most interesting teams, right, I

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Speaker 1: gotta talk about Jason Tatum and the Boston Celtics.

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Speaker 2: That's my pick. Okay, they're getting back one of the

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Speaker 2: of weeks. We've heard some theorizing that NBC is flexing

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Speaker 2: their game time because Tatum will be returning soon. They

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Speaker 2: the All Star Game. They give him that little package

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Speaker 1: This guy's awesome.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna be joining a Boston Celtics team that's at

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Speaker 2: These guys have played together for the majority of their

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Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be interesting to see when he

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Speaker 1: Be Spurs talk eventually.

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Speaker 3: But it is interesting to start with Tatum joining a team,

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Speaker 1: Everybody else is being shut down for the rest of

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Speaker 3: They absolutely need him at the end of games when

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Speaker 3: they're not good in clutch games. You know those games

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Speaker 3: games when they give it to the opponent when their

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Speaker 3: threes are falling down. They're twenty three and five in

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Speaker 3: non clutch games. And you can see how it's affecting

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Speaker 3: Derek White, Payne Pritchard. Their numbers have dropped. Their field

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Speaker 3: eight point three percent this year. Pritchard's sixty two last

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Speaker 3: goal percentage is dropped because Tatum's not around, But I

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Speaker 1: Has been carrying it. It's a fair question.

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Speaker 3: But in the East, they just need that one little

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Speaker 3: They could win the thing. Do you think the Celtics can.

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Speaker 1: Win the Okay, win the East, win the title? Two

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Speaker 1: different things? But can they win it all with Tatum?

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Speaker 1: Matt Let's call it eighty percent because we are expecting

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Speaker 2: I think they could win the East for sure. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: Detroit never won a playoff series. Uh, you know, the

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Speaker 4: I do believe.

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 2: They they've got institutional knowledge with Tatum and Brown and

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Speaker 1: They lost a lot over the offseason, but they still

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Speaker 3: The Oklahoma City Thunder. Maybe I'm pandering to the Spurs

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Speaker 3: J Gil just Alexander as an abdominal strain. That man

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Speaker 3: is entirely fine. But they have other issues. Jalan Williams

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Speaker 3: has not been himself this season.

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Speaker 1: They need him to be.

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Speaker 3: Their second best ball handler like he was last year

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Speaker 3: when they won it. He's played twenty six games this season.

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Speaker 3: He has a hamstring injury that he's coming back from.

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Speaker 3: So they just haven't been right. They've only played their

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Speaker 3: amount of questions. Feels like it is a bit like

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Speaker 1: They finished sixty one to twenty one.

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Speaker 3: Because they're awesome, but then they get into the playoffs,

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Speaker 3: into the second round against the Knicks, when many people

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Speaker 3: when Jason Tatum went down three minutes left Game four,

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Speaker 3: they're down nine. They were gonna be down whether Jason

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Speaker 3: one and then they lost. So are the Thunder last

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Speaker 3: year Celtics. It's possible. I think they do need them

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Speaker 3: just some magic. They just need things to work together,

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Speaker 3: because they have dropped several games to these Spurs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. We'll see if they match up. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's what we were hoping for. They've already played like

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Speaker 1: a playoff series. That's right. Regular season five time five

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Speaker 1: games was the first, taking four of them. Any thoughts

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Speaker 2: It moving Yeah, I had a dream last night that

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Speaker 2: I met Jalen Williams on the streets and he knew

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Speaker 2: my pick up basketball clip?

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Speaker 1: Is that because we saw Mark Williams walking around Mike

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean the Thunder got questions if Jayalen Williams,

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Speaker 2: if he's too busy watching my Instagram highlights, then they're

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Speaker 2: not gonna be able to do it this year. These

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Speaker 2: the basketball court, like I'm always saying.

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Speaker 1: And we're like creeping up here on what almost a decade,

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Speaker 1: new winner every year. So they're trying to do that

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Speaker 1: as well. Yeah all right, well this uh the third

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Speaker 1: pick overall, I can't believe they've slipped this far in

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Speaker 1: the draft. Here. I'll take the Spurs. I'll take the

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Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs. So heading into tonight's game, they have

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Speaker 1: the longest win streak in the NBA. It is at

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Speaker 1: six games, and they're just two games in the lost

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Speaker 1: column behind the Oklahoma City Thunder. They hold the head

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Speaker 1: to head tiebreaker, as we talked about, it took four

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Speaker 1: or five. So there's that part. Keep your eye on that.

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Speaker 1: But most importantly, the Spurs look like they passed the

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Speaker 1: title contender checklif Right, There's like three things that a

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Speaker 1: lot of people look at, like have you done this

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Speaker 1: check that helps your chances to maybe go all the

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Speaker 1: way and win it all. Let me go through them.

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Speaker 1: First one, we've talked about it before, the Phil Jackson

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Speaker 1: forty twenty rule. You need to win forty games or

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Speaker 1: you lose twenty games. And I think it was Matt

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Speaker 1: Moore at Hardwood Proox as said, ninety one percent of

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Speaker 1: NBA champions since the introduction of the three point line

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Speaker 1: have won forty games before, so it's a huge high percentage,

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Speaker 1: like you got to hit that mark. The Spurs are

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Speaker 1: thirty eight and sixteen, so they got to go two

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Speaker 1: in Austin. They very well could beat the Suns tonight.

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Speaker 2: Basically, I think I think I would take the Spurs

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Speaker 2: on Saturday against.

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Speaker 1: The King's probably, so so there's that. Then there's the

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Speaker 1: SRS four plus rule.

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Speaker 2: A little nerdy people are always talking SRS Yeah, here.

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Speaker 1: I'll explain it. So it's it's by way of basketball reference.

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Speaker 1: Then they got the Pistons.

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Speaker 3: Excuse me, They got the Knicks and the Pistons in

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Speaker 3: one o'clock Okay, see versus those Calves on Sunday. Then

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Speaker 1: Do you believe though, in the Calves and James Harden

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Speaker 2: But why is Harden ever let down the Calves? Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'll stay in the East. Those Pistons. I think chemistry

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Speaker 3: All those things are coming together for this team to

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Speaker 3: They just beat the Knicks by thirty eight literally before

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Speaker 3: the All Star Game. They also beat the Knicks by

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Speaker 3: for their third game. They're three and one versus Boston

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Speaker 3: They play them twice in their next seven games. Isaiah

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Speaker 3: they're just good against good teams. They're seventeen and six

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Speaker 1: They just they show up every day.

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Speaker 3: And I know they've only been to one playoff series,

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Speaker 3: every series because they get after it defensively. They force

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Speaker 3: the Knicks. But if I'm picking between those fourteen right now,

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Speaker 3: I think I'm taking the Pistons to make the NBA Finals.

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Speaker 3: If I'm picking between the Cavs, Celtics, Pistons or the Knicks,

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Speaker 1: Them again, broken record, But it's just like so rare

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Speaker 1: I am a little concerned, like when things bogged down

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean they got Game seven Kevin Herder

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Speaker 1: And also they've been forged in the fires. JB.

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Speaker 2: Bickerstaff took Kid Cunningham and Jalen Durhan and led them

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Speaker 2: twenty six.

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Speaker 1: February, specifically this month.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, I mean, bigger than any gold medal

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Speaker 1: That was it. Dominant victory. Dominant victory wasn't even close

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Speaker 1: in the end. All right, my second pick sixth overall,

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Speaker 1: I'll go with the Houston Rockets. Let's talk about Burnergate, baby.

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Speaker 1: That's the number one question.

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Speaker 3: Why people that I've talked to today before, are we

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Speaker 1: I mean, whoever wrote that that's funny? Yes, whether it

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Speaker 1: the Kevin Durant of one with the Rockets, Can this

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Speaker 1: weird AFT's offense work because they just grab a million

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Speaker 1: That's strange. Is Fred van Vliet coming back? You know

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Speaker 1: You know what does that mean for him? Is he not?

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Speaker 1: this adversity that is maybe real or maybe not? With

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Speaker 1: and former Sons teammates. That's one thing again him allegedly

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Speaker 1: it's him he doesn't want to talk about yet. But

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Speaker 1: the part of talking about Alprin sheng Gun and Jabari

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Speaker 2: Whoa, yeah, but did you see Jabbari and Alprin sheng

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Speaker 1: Come on the same lyrics. Read the lyrics. I don't

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Speaker 2: They gotta be united together. The Rockets aren't gonna win.

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Speaker 2: Their offense isn't good enough. They've been mid for basically

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Speaker 2: two months straight. Yes, and now they don't have Steven Adams,

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Speaker 2: He's a better player than Capella, and he unites the forces.

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Speaker 1: I do believe.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do think Durant needs Freddy beside him. He

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Speaker 3: needs that point guard beside him. Now, he didn't talk

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Speaker 3: But no, really, they do need fred back, and they

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Speaker 3: need fred back soon if he's going to be that

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Speaker 3: guy in the playoffs, because he can't just turn it

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Speaker 3: on on March fifteenth.

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Speaker 1: Right on Wednesday, by the way, if you're keeping track

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Speaker 1: get into Twitter nonsense. Bullshit, that's all you've been usually doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm on Twitter to get into Twitter nonsense.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and I'm not one to get into Instagram stories,

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Speaker 3: but now I need to know shng Gun Jabarsmith, what

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Speaker 2: It was like each of them celebrating with Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, yeah, I mean, I'm I'm maybe the Rockets

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Speaker 1: Do you what do you think legit has happened with this?

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Speaker 1: Do you believe it was him? And then maybe some

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Speaker 2: Or I think it's I think it's eighty percent real. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think once we saw we saw all the real

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Speaker 2: is a perfect opportunities for some photoshop jokes, right, and

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Speaker 2: then they would add to it and then it really

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Speaker 1: But I mean, we've seen.

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Speaker 2: Kevin Durant use burners to talk about X teammates before,

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Speaker 2: so why would he have ever stopped?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I buy it, definitely buy it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it feels like it again if somebody.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't denied it. Really this is a strange part.

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Speaker 1: And then he went very quiet. Everybody saw him on

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Speaker 1: his phone non stop all Star weekend. Very strange for

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Speaker 1: the Rockets. Here's one thing to watch though this is

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Speaker 1: from shoe to easiest post break schedule among the top,

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Speaker 1: other So we'll see if this the Kevin Durant tweets

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 1: Them against the world is what they can do. I

433
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Speaker 1: was just saying that, guys, that's not really how I feel. Well,

434
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Speaker 1: that's funny about he might like I've said that to

435
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Speaker 1: your face, you know what I mean? That's also true, yeah,

436
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:18,800
Speaker 1: but very strange, very strange. All right, final round here, tray,

437
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Speaker 1: Where are you going?

438
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Speaker 2: Denver Nuggets haven't looked great since Nicolai Oogic came back

439
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,760
Speaker 2: three and four, twenty fifth in defense. With Jokic on

440
00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,240
Speaker 2: the court for their past seven game, they're only twenty

441
00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:30,960
Speaker 2: fourth on the season. A lot of part of that

442
00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 2: I think they are missing their two best defenders in

443
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,800
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon and Peyton Watson. That's not good news to

444
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,040
Speaker 2: me because they're both out with hamstring injuries, which are

445
00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,320
Speaker 2: like athleticism based injuries, which is important for both of

446
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:44,560
Speaker 2: those guys to perform. So for me, it's can they

447
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 2: get healthy? Can they stay healthy for the rest of

448
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:48,919
Speaker 2: the year because that's been a problem for Gordon this

449
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,199
Speaker 2: year in and out of the lineup. And then can

450
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,879
Speaker 2: they get their defense to resemble twenty twenty three in

451
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:56,879
Speaker 2: any sort of way When they won the championship, they

452
00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,400
Speaker 2: were fifteenth in the league in defense. It doesn't seem

453
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,320
Speaker 2: to me the big they're ranking up that high. But

454
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Speaker 2: if they can be middle of the pack, they can

455
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Speaker 2: win because they've got enough talent on the offensive end.

456
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Speaker 2: But it kind of feels like a stop and start

457
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Speaker 2: season for Denver, and I just wonder if trying to

458
00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:15,119
Speaker 2: integrate a new bench, Cam Johnson kind of has fallen

459
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 2: by the wayside completely as a guy that's been in

460
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Speaker 2: and out of the lineup as well, hasn't fit perfectly.

461
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Speaker 2: They just haven't been super impressive. I don't think, but

462
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Speaker 2: we think they can probably elevate their game. I would

463
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Speaker 2: probably take San Antonio ahead of Denver at this point.

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Speaker 3: This Yeah, they do have to get into their groove.

465
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Speaker 3: They do have the best offense in the NBA because

466
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Speaker 3: they do click yep when they're out there. They've got

467
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Speaker 3: seven guys shooting over forty percent from three, which is

468
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Speaker 3: very impressive considering they literally have been up and down,

469
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 3: and a lot of guys have been injured. But they

470
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Speaker 3: do have a tough schedule. You mentioned the Rockets there.

471
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Speaker 3: The Nuggets have the toughest schedule in the NBA the

472
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Speaker 3: rest of the season when you add together win percentages

473
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Speaker 3: from their opponents. Eleven of their next twelve games will

474
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Speaker 3: come against teams above five hundred. So the thing is

475
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Speaker 3: the Nuggets are such a good road team, doesn't really

476
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Speaker 3: matter if they drop to fourth or fifth in the

477
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Speaker 3: Western Conference standings. The fewer the series on the road,

478
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Speaker 3: the better. But this team has to just find their

479
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Speaker 3: groove before they get there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like like Wenby with the Spurs. They

481
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Speaker 1: have Yo kitchen. They they're gonna like their chances playoff speiz,

482
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Speaker 1: especially when you can run the yell kitch, Jamal Murray

483
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 1: stoppable pick and roll like nobody has anything.

484
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Speaker 2: I saw some Losa games having at home once well

485
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:31,200
Speaker 2: they had low a twenty point lead.

486
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Speaker 1: They have done that. Uh, what's your final team?

487
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 3: Let's go over to the Minnesota Timberwolves, a team that

488
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 3: everyone questions. There's no doubt because last year they finished

489
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 3: seventeen to four their last twenty one games before they

490
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,960
Speaker 3: got to the conference finals. So their regular season finished

491
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 3: was fantastic and feels like they kind of have to

492
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 3: do that again because this team goes through big sways.

493
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:56,879
Speaker 3: They did that earlier this season. They started the season

494
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Speaker 3: fourteen to one against sub five hundred teams. Since they've

495
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Speaker 3: been can they elevate themselves to another level? We know

496
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards is gonna be good, and I'm not worried

497
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 3: about Julius Randall or Rudy Gobert. They need some of

498
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 3: those other guys, and specifically it's Jaya McDaniels. One of

499
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 3: the great things about Anthony Edwards is he always says

500
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Speaker 3: what's on his mind, Like when he was asked after

501
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 3: winning the All Star MVP is asked, how do you guys,

502
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 3: how are you gonna get to winning a championship? He said,

503
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 3: my favorite player Jane McDaniels, And he's right. It is

504
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 3: Jayden McDaniels, along with iould assume who came over. I

505
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Speaker 3: do think those two guys, combined with the other players

506
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Speaker 3: that I just mentioned, could finish games. But they have

507
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 3: elevated to a different level this year. They both jumped up.

508
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 3: They're both shooting forty five percent from three. Those are

509
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 3: big jumps for both of them. Jane McDaniels thirty three

510
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Speaker 3: percent last year to forty five this year. I would

511
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,680
Speaker 3: assume with thirty three from last year to forty four

512
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 3: point seven percent this year, that's the biggest jump for

513
00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 3: two players in the NBA. If we take into account

514
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 3: a little stat you know, you have to shoot a

515
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,680
Speaker 3: hundred threes. But Schumann did that, and I do think

516
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 3: that's totally true. It's those guys around Anthony Edwards if

517
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 3: they're going to elevate. So I don't know there's such

518
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 3: an up and down team. Will we get that same

519
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 3: vibe that we got at the end of last season

520
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 3: when they got on a roll and then went to

521
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 3: the conference finals. But Desumu and Jada McDaniels are going

522
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:22,120
Speaker 3: to be important to that team.

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Speaker 1: For a team that's been in the Final four of

524
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 1: the NBA the last two seasons, they are sort of

525
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,399
Speaker 1: hilariously looked. Very part of it is the up and

526
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 1: down nature. But talking all these other teams ahead of them,

527
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: be it spurs Nuggets obviously Thunder.

528
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 2: A lot more consistent teams, and that to me is

529
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,920
Speaker 2: like McDaniels and iOS shooting would be huge for this team.

530
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:40,919
Speaker 2: But it's all one hundred percent on Anthony Edwards. He's

531
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Speaker 2: been taken out of the Western Conference finals the last

532
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 2: two years. He's got to be their best player and

533
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,640
Speaker 2: he's got to have good games every single night because

534
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 2: he's going to see different defenses and he does a

535
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,160
Speaker 2: good job of like passing the ball when he gets

536
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 2: double teamed. But you got to go back and get it.

537
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 2: You got to score thirty a game in the playoffs,

538
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:55,880
Speaker 2: all right.

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Speaker 1: My final pick with love to the Knicks, who are

540
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 1: a damn good team and could come out of the East,

541
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: and with some love to the Hornets or a damn

542
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:12,360
Speaker 1: fun team. So LaMelo take away, mo Man, Holy crap uh,

543
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick though, I'm gonna pick because it's interesting

544
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:22,160
Speaker 1: to me the Lakers, because are we watching Lebron's final season,

545
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:26,120
Speaker 1: either just with LA or in the NBA entirely. We've

546
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: debated this lot. He's sort of like being quite coy

547
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 1: about his answer. He's not definitely not coming out and

548
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: saying this is it, but he's not saying I'll be

549
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: back and I'll trying to live my life. Yeah. Literally,

550
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 1: But they're also they're a funny team, like they're they're

551
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 1: good record wise, but then you dig into the numbers

552
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: and it's like, how are they good? Truman said, the

553
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:51,120
Speaker 1: Lakers are tied with the fifty three fifty four Knicks

554
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: for what would be the best record in NBA history

555
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: for a team with a negative point differential. So it's

556
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 1: like the good record, but they're not really good. They've

557
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 1: been outscored by a single point over their entire season.

558
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: Really odd. But they have this incredible record in the clutch.

559
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 1: They're fifteen to three in clutch games, but they haven't

560
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,239
Speaker 1: played a whole bunch of them. They get blown out

561
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 1: when they lose. So weird team. You know, we're getting

562
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,880
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves back. The Lakers are and that's some talented

563
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: offensive players, no doubt, but can they get stops on

564
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 1: the defensive end? The Lakers are always going to be fascinating,

565
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: especially with the Lebron in. How'd that Knicks team end

566
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: up doing? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. There was

567
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 1: only like four teams in the league. They probably finished

568
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: top four. Bumpy Jones was going for twelve a game

569
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 1: that year. He was really on fire. First guy to

570
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 1: shoot a jump shot. I mean, the Lakers aren't going

571
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: to do it. This it's just not going to happen,

572
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: I don't think. But that's not the plan. The plan

573
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: is to be good.

574
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 3: Is a Rich Paul podcast? Man, isn't that what Rich

575
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 3: Paul said? The Lakers are not?

576
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 4: No, no, you would know.

577
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 2: And this also has not Lebron's last season, and next

578
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 2: year he will be a Cleveland Cavalier. That would be

579
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 2: my prediction. He's got he's getting the fake going away tour.

580
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 2: This Okay, it's brilliant. If you don't say you're leaving,

581
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 2: Everyone's like, well, is he leaving? So they treat it

582
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 2: like a retirement tour, right, and then next year you say, yeah,

583
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,360
Speaker 2: this is my last year to a retirement tour.

584
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: And what he's going to sign a Vets minimum just

585
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: to play with Cleveland. And then I've seen reports like

586
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna pay him fifty to sixty million to like

587
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 1: follow him around and do the documentary on his final season.

588
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,159
Speaker 1: So that's how he'll made his money. Anybody would do it,

589
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: Maybe Lebron would do that. Yeah, you think he's gonna

590
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: play again next year? One more year, twenty fourth NBA season.

591
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: I do think he wants everybody to say goodbye. He

592
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: he wants the rocking chairs and the posters and portraits.

593
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 3: If he just slips out like Tim Duncan, Yeah, I'm pandering.

594
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 3: But if he does a Tim Duncan move, it doesn't

595
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 3: feel like.

596
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: Lebron, right right right? What would you get him for

597
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 1: a retirement gift? Great question? Hmm, Like the thickest headband possible. Oh,

598
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: a trip to Turkey, all expenses paid at the implants.

599
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: All right, those are our nine most interesting team quick draft. There,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick break and then we'll bring

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Speaker 1: Let's hear it. Thanks for having me on, guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you swinging by. I know this came together all

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Speaker 5: I was texting my one of my best friends from home, Mitch,

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Speaker 5: starstruck about this than seeing you on live TV because

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Speaker 5: his whole life I've been trying to get on TV

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Speaker 1: So shout out Mitch. Cameras right there, Mitch, Mitch uh So,

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Speaker 1: second year with the Spurs doing the play by player.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into Spurs talk, But how is it going.

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Speaker 1: What's your favorite part about the job, what's your least

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Speaker 1: favorite party with the.

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Speaker 5: Gig, there's no least favorite. Come on, I mean, everyone

633
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Speaker 5: will say that travel is daunting, it's hard.

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Speaker 4: Roll my eyes.

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Speaker 5: I'm on a private plane with the guys and staying

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00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,680
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Speaker 5: in the house and I get to sit with, you know,

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00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 5: argu be one of the greatest Spurs of all time

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00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 5: in Sean Elliott, and get to talk about Spurs basketball

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Speaker 5: and the NBA. And that's something that I've wanted to

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Speaker 5: do since I was twelve years old. You know, I

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00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 5: come from Massachusetts and hour south of Boston. I grew

645
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 5: up watching the Celtics. I grew up idolizing their announcer,

646
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 5: Mike Gorman, and I just wanted to be just like him,

647
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 5: and so I've been so passionate about it, pretty much

648
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 5: dedicated my whole life to it.

649
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 4: I'm a young guy, I'm twenty eight.

650
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 5: I'm very lucky to be where I am because not

651
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 5: a lot a lot of young guys get to do

652
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 5: this this early for a living, and I'm just so

653
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 5: grateful they get to be here and watch Victor and

654
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 5: Castle and Harper and all the young guns come up.

655
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 5: And I feel like I'm growing with the team because

656
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 5: I'm a young guy, they're a young guy and we

657
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 5: get to do it together.

658
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 4: So it's really cool.

659
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have impeccable timing joining the Spurs when you

660
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: did here.

661
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, I did it. I did it basically by plan.

662
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 5: That was that was a part I waited, you know,

663
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 5: there was a couple of rough years there.

664
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 4: No, I just it just it just came up. Yeah, incredible.

665
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: Have you had a coffee? Yeah? Or did you do

666
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: smelling salts? Oh?

667
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 5: There's that, Yeah, I had, so I don't drink coffee.

668
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: Oh you just do smelling salts.

669
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 4: I just do smeelling salts.

670
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 5: That smelling salts thing was so weird and funny because

671
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 5: it was such a last minute thing. So we the

672
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 5: Spurs played a game in San Antonio and I think

673
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 5: a Friday night, had to fly to Orlando to play

674
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,479
Speaker 5: the next day Saturday. That's hard, and it was an

675
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,719
Speaker 5: early game in Orlando, a late game in San Antonio.

676
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 5: You pegged out as a loss for sure, and Victor

677
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 5: wasn't playing at the time, and one of my producers Avery,

678
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 5: twenty minutes before tip off, was like, Hey, I'm gonna

679
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 5: bring some smelling salts out to the broadcast table. You

680
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 5: should do them on the air to like say that,

681
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 5: oh I need to wake up. So I was like,

682
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 5: I've never done smelling salts before, and I was like,

683
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 5: you know what, I'm not gonna do it. Something crazy happens.

684
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 5: I'm just I'm just gonna pretend to bring it up

685
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 5: with Sean and then not do it. And then literally

686
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 5: my producer's counting down to my head ten nine eight,

687
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 5: and I'm like, I'm doing it, baby, I'm doing it.

688
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 4: I'm doing You took a and I you know they

689
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 4: say six inches away from the nose.

690
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, almost almost knocked me off my seat.

691
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 5: And then, you know, two million views later, my parents

692
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 5: are sending me this like what what are you doing

693
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 5: on TV?

694
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 4: But hey, Sean's reaction was the best.

695
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 5: He's like, you know, he's like my my, my older brother,

696
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 5: my uncle, like reacting like the little brother, like what

697
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 5: are you doing? You know what I mean? So it

698
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 5: was awesome. It was good for TV. As as they say, I.

699
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 3: Kind of felt like the roles flipped when you guys

700
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 3: had ice cream this year, that was Sean eating the

701
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 3: ice cream and you looking at him like what are

702
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 3: you doing?

703
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 5: So the eating the eating segments have come to be

704
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 5: very popular, and they we just started doing them like

705
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 5: mid season, and Sean loves food, so anytime Sean eats,

706
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 5: he's happy. So once we started doing the segments, it's

707
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 5: like the number one thing people stop me in the

708
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 5: street is be like, I love that segment. I love

709
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 5: you guys eating. So if if it's ice cream or

710
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,239
Speaker 5: whatever it is, sign me up.

711
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 4: It's awesome.

712
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 2: What's it been like being part of like the Victor

713
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 2: Webbin Yama experience, Like you said, you're a young guy

714
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 2: as well, and you're all sort of growing together as

715
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 2: a team, but there is a massive, like global superstar

716
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 2: on the team.

717
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 1: That's not always the case for young teams.

718
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 4: Yeah.

719
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 5: No, I got really really lucky that I get to

720
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 5: align my career, you know, hopefully for a long time

721
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 5: with Victor. And everyone always asked me what's it like

722
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 5: to call his games? What's it like to be an

723
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 5: NBA play by play announcer? And the thing I always

724
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 5: say is that you have to be ready. Like I

725
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 5: was joking around earlier, like this came up last minute.

726
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 5: You always have to be ready because you never know

727
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 5: what he's going to do on the court. So I

728
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 5: have to always be aware of my surroundings where he

729
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 5: is on the floor at all times, what's he doing

730
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 5: because he could, no joke one day take off from

731
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 5: the free throw line or just inside the three point

732
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 5: line in dunket and I have to have the most

733
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 5: amazing call ever because that's gonna live on forever. So

734
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 5: there is some pressure there, but I love that pressure.

735
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 5: I love being now I'm not on the court play,

736
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,919
Speaker 5: but I love sort of being involved with the game

737
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 5: in a minut school way. So to document his career,

738
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 5: it's awesome. It's it kind of has the feeling of

739
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 5: when when when Lebron first started, you know, I'm sure

740
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,760
Speaker 5: those announcers were like this, this could be really really special.

741
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 5: Same thing with Jordan saying thing with Kobe. So to me,

742
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 5: it's just such a privilege to be around and see

743
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 5: the moments. And he's such a nice guy, Like he'll

744
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 5: come up to me before the game and say hi

745
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 5: to me and Sean and give us hugs and ask

746
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,959
Speaker 5: us how we're doing. And that's the best. That's the best.

747
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 5: Part because he's a real human. He means well, he's

748
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 5: well intent. He's well intended. If you listen to him

749
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 5: in press conferences, he always stops for a moment and

750
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 5: then thinks about what he's gonna say and then actually

751
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 5: says it. Because he's seriously cares about every single thing

752
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 5: that goes on with his career, with his teammates, and

753
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,280
Speaker 5: he's one of the most selfish, selfless guys in the league.

754
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: He's very thoughtful. Yeah, has he ever recommended a book

755
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: for you?

756
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 5: Not yet, But I'm trying to, you know, maybe I

757
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 5: should recommend a book to him. I'm not I'm trying

758
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 5: to get better reading. I've read a couple of books

759
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 5: this year. It's been it's so busy for us during

760
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 5: the season. So maybe I can get in the book

761
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 5: club with him and Harrison Barnes. I think Bismack Bambo

762
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 5: might be in that book club too. Yes, well, you've

763
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 5: got plane time, I guess. But are you prepping when

764
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 5: you're on the plane or you're always Kevin Harlan, who

765
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 5: has been my mentor for a long time. Him and

766
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 5: Brian Anderson from TNT have been my two guys in

767
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 5: this Businesstead of watched me grow and giving me advice,

768
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 5: And Kevin Harlan was telling me when I was younger,

769
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 5: always work on the plane because that what else are

770
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 5: you gonna do. You're gonna watch a movie, You're gonna

771
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 5: listen to music. Yeah I could do that, but always

772
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 5: get my work done on the plane, so then you

773
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 5: can enjoy what city are in, get a feel for

774
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 5: your surroundings, get to know the area because I try

775
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 5: to mention that stuff on the broadcast from time to time,

776
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 5: give people a feel of what the city's like, what

777
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 5: the vibe is like. So if I can get most

778
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 5: of my work done on the plane, that's a good thing.

779
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: That's cool. Yeah. Obviously didn't have to fly here for

780
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 1: this one.

781
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 4: No, I drove, so the team took a bus.

782
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 5: But I had to because I'm also a musician and

783
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 5: I have my music equipment with me and I'm actually

784
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 5: playing a music show on Friday here.

785
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 1: Where are you playing?

786
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 4: I play at the Four.

787
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 5: Seasons, where the team is staying at the outdoor bar

788
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 5: from five to seven. So if y'all want to hear

789
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 5: some acoustic music, I singh play guitar, so I'll come

790
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 5: check out for that. Yeah, yeah, but I had to

791
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 5: drive all my equipment up here. I couldn't put it

792
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 5: on the team bus. And we're not flying with the

793
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 5: team out to Detroit after because it's a national TV game,

794
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 5: so we're going back home from.

795
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: Hey Wenby, do you have a carry on? No? Can

796
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 1: you just take this guitar for Yeah?

797
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 5: Well so I do bring my guitar on the road

798
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 5: sometimes just for my personal enjoyment. And there was one

799
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 5: time where a couple not players, but a couple of

800
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 5: staff members I'll just say, invited me up to their

801
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 5: room and we had a jam night, just playing music randomly.

802
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 5: And the next day Calvin Johnson came up to me,

803
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 5: and I guess he maybe heard about it or saw

804
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 5: a video, and he was like, can you teach me

805
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 5: how to play guitar? And I was like, yeah, dude, anytime,

806
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 5: let's do it. That has not happened yet, but I'm

807
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 5: trying to get them, trying to get him there.

808
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: So how cool is this here in Austin? Yes, a

809
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: couple of years running. Now, you were here last year,

810
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 1: I assume for the game.

811
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 4: Awesome.

812
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,320
Speaker 5: I'm in the Kasa, I'm in the Casa day Spurs

813
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 5: like that's that's pretty cool. It's awesome because it's it's

814
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:13,720
Speaker 5: such a short drive. It's only an hour and fifteen

815
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 5: hour and twenty minutes, and it's a totally different city.

816
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 5: But the fan base is here. I've met, I met.

817
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 5: I was just talking to some people in the crowd.

818
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 5: They're from here and they love the Spurs, but they've

819
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 5: born and raised here, and I think just growing the

820
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 5: relationship in Austin. It's a growing city. It's a younger city.

821
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 4: You know.

822
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,320
Speaker 5: The Spurs have fans of all different ages, all different

823
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 5: countries as well, with with Victor being from France and

824
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 5: European countries, with you know, Manu and Patty and everybody else.

825
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 5: But to grow it in another city that's only an

826
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 5: hour away, that's you know, a big city as well.

827
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 5: I think it's it's awesome. It's actually a no brainer

828
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 5: to me, so to come here twice a year to

829
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 5: play games. When I first heard about it, I was like,

830
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 5: that's that's really exciting. And the Moody Center is great,

831
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 5: you know, it's a relatively new arena. The fans were

832
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 5: awesome last year. I was actually here two years ago

833
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 5: as a sort of as a shadow. I was shadowing

834
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 5: the Spurs broadcast, so give you a little insight. I've

835
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 5: known some of the Spurs people for a couple of

836
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 5: years prior to me getting the job, so that sort

837
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 5: of helped. And I was up here shadowing during Spurs

838
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 5: Week and I was like, this is awesome.

839
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 4: So I've loved it. It's it's been a great thing.

840
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes sense to a part of the Rodeo

841
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 1: road trip obviously, Yes, super long.

842
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, and this year, actually the Rodeo road trip isn't

843
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 5: as bad as it's been in the past. This year

844
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 5: went out to the West Conference for two games to

845
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 5: play the Lakers and the Warriors, then had the All

846
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 5: Star breakoff, so you get to go back home or

847
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 5: the guys go on vacation and then you know, you're

848
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 5: in Austin, which is kind of home, and then you

849
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 5: go to New York at you know, Detroit, Toronto, New

850
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 5: York and you're back home pretty much at the Philly

851
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 5: So it's not that bad. It's West home, East home,

852
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 5: So it could be crazier. We've had crazier stretches. I

853
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 5: mean the team was on the road for you know,

854
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 5: almost thirty days straight during that NBA Cup run sort

855
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 5: of end of middle of November to pretty much ended December.

856
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: Right, you know, Wemby's obviously the international star. You got

857
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: another All Star in Daron Foxx. Yes, who on the

858
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 1: Spurs team do you think is like an Harold sort

859
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 1: of player that maybe from the national media at least

860
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: deserves more love.

861
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 5: Well, I mean you mentioned Dearon, but I feel like

862
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 5: people aren't talking about him enough. And you know, Mitch Johnson,

863
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:26,280
Speaker 5: the Spurs head coach, was he was admint about Daron

864
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 5: being an All Star or at least this team having

865
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 5: a second All Star. I mean, they're second in the

866
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 5: West and there's only a couple of teams that have

867
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,360
Speaker 5: two All Stars, and rightfully so the Spurs should have

868
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,760
Speaker 5: been in there. So I think the league got that corrected.

869
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 5: I mean someone had sent me something online of one

870
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 5: of the Lakers accounts saying how could Daron fox be

871
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 5: chosen as an All Star over Austin Reeves?

872
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 4: And I was like, well, Austin Reeves was hurt for

873
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 4: a while.

874
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, he has like better points per game and maybe

875
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 5: a couple better points in terms of shooting percentages, but

876
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,280
Speaker 5: he's not on the second best team in the West.

877
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 5: He's changed his game he's playing off ball more than

878
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,800
Speaker 5: he ever had in his career. He's given the keys

879
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 5: to Stefan Castle as as the primary decision maker for

880
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 5: this team, and that's not easy for someone to do.

881
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 5: He's twenty eight, he's in the prime of his career.

882
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 5: He is he makes the most money on the.

883
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 4: He makes the most money on the team.

884
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 5: I mean, I give him so much credit because he

885
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 5: didn't have to do that, and so he's he's shepherding

886
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 5: in this young cast of characters. And so I think,

887
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 5: you know, people should should definitely talk about dearon Fox more.

888
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 5: And I think if this person continue to win and

889
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 5: be that second seed, they will I.

890
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 3: Got to get in a Wemby question because yes, to

891
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 3: ask every Wemby question, and because you're saying it has

892
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:41,399
Speaker 3: sort of trickled down, like everybody is seeing their role

893
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 3: in a different way. What has Victor Weminyam done for

894
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 3: each guy in terms of their ability to either grow

895
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 3: emotionally on or off the court.

896
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:52,399
Speaker 4: I think just.

897
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 5: Every day act like kind of I kind of said earlier,

898
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,240
Speaker 5: but act like a normal guy. Yeah, And that gives

899
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 5: everybody there's no fear, all right, And I'm not calling

900
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 5: guys out around the league. But I think different star

901
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 5: players emote different things. Webby doesn't have a burner, not

902
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 5: that I know, not that I know. And if there

903
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 5: was one, I hope he's I hope he wouldn't be

904
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 5: tweeting about how bad the broadcast sounds. But no, yeah, yeah, no,

905
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,280
Speaker 5: that that book is. But you mentioned the book. Always

906
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 5: a book in his hand. You know, I'm on the

907
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 5: bus with these guys, I'm on the plane, always has

908
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 5: a book. Jokic obviously made fun of him last year

909
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 5: at the All Star Game. Had a book this year

910
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 5: at the All Star Game. Yes, yes he did. He

911
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 5: didn't show it off, but he had a book that's

912
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 5: inside information. Yeah, breaking news. But I think he's just

913
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 5: allowed everybody to be themselves. And you know he we've

914
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 5: seen from time to time him get upset with the

915
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 5: physicality and and sort of demand the basketball. But he

916
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 5: is not always demanding the basketball. He's willing to feed

917
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,359
Speaker 5: his teammates, let let other guys cook, and they're trying

918
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 5: to find that perfect balance of when to let him

919
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 5: go off, when to give the ball to you know,

920
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 5: Darren Fox or Castle Or sprayed out to the shooters,

921
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 5: Champagne and Devin Vessel, So I think he's just let

922
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 5: everybody be themselves and be calm, and that's sort of

923
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 5: led in and this, you know, he at the end

924
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,360
Speaker 5: of the year, he yeah, he did mention that the

925
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 5: playoffs were a goal, but there wasn't a pressure we

926
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 5: have to be top three. It just happened to be

927
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 5: that way. And what a ride man like top three,

928
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 5: top two with.

929
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 2: A good resume against the number one team. That's got

930
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 2: to be encouraging as well.

931
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 4: Yeah.

932
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, four wins, you know, three of them were really

933
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 5: really well earned. The fourth one obviously the thunder sat everybody,

934
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 5: So still a win in the book. And if it

935
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 5: comes down to seating, that's you know, that could potentially

936
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 5: hurt them as they're creeping up, you know, three and

937
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 5: a half, four games behind behind the number one seed.

938
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 2: Do you think we'll see some of the Jackals contingent

939
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 2: here in Austin.

940
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 4: Can confirm the Jackals are here?

941
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:53,280
Speaker 1: Excellent?

942
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Jackals are here. Honestly, how cool has that

943
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 5: been to watch? It's just it's different. It's obviously very

944
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 5: European with the way Victor has gone about it. You know,

945
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 5: the Ultras with PSG, this insane fan base he wants

946
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 5: to create. And I've met a ton of the Jackals

947
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,240
Speaker 5: and they've been super nice too, not only the staff,

948
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 5: but us Sean and I the players. They are super

949
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 5: into it. I can hear them through my headset, and

950
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 5: that's not always the case, like because the headset's so

951
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 5: loud with the game sound and my producer, but I

952
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 5: hear them, and so anytime I hear them, I'll mention, hey, man, John,

953
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 5: the Jackals are going crazy right now. We'll show them

954
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 5: on the broadcast all the time. So yeah, shout out

955
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 5: the Jackals. They're the best. And they even came to

956
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 5: watch me play music a couple of times, so ohay.

957
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 5: They love their Spurs. Anyone associated with the Spurs fantastic.

958
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 1: Yeah. Back to web Minyama in the All Star Game

959
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 1: obviously set in the tone people are, I think, rightfully

960
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: so saying he maybe saved the All Star Game or

961
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: he brought it back. Yeah, But as a Spurs fan,

962
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: as someone that does the broadcast, are you also like

963
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,720
Speaker 1: freaking out watching the All Star Game? You're like, WHOA,

964
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:58,280
Speaker 1: You're going very hard Wenby, You're trying to block everything,

965
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: like don't squeak an ankle or something like that.

966
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 4: I mean a little bit. I mean, no doubt.

967
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,319
Speaker 5: Anytime that you know, Victor falls on the floor at

968
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 5: any point, I'm like a little bit like, all right, yeah,

969
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 5: he's he's up, he's up. He's good to always always

970
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,879
Speaker 5: mention that. But any player, for sure, on any team.

971
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,839
Speaker 5: I mean, I the rash of injuries over the last

972
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 5: couple of years has really been concerning, and it stinks

973
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 5: as an announcer because you want the best guys on

974
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:25,800
Speaker 5: the floor. I want, you know, I want this Spurs

975
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 5: to win every game, obviously, but I want a good game.

976
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 5: As an announcer, we always want good games. Sean probably

977
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,439
Speaker 5: wants to win by fifty every game, which yeah, that's

978
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 5: rightfully so, and that that makes sense. I want a

979
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 5: really good game and entertaining game, and so injuries are

980
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 5: always a part of it. But yeah, I loved Victor

981
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 5: setting the tone. It's just it's part of his story. Man,

982
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 5: he cares so much. And I've tried to do a

983
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 5: really good job of doing as much research on his

984
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 5: background as I can. I mean, I've read a book

985
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 5: about him that was translated from French to English. I've

986
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,280
Speaker 5: you know, tried to get tried to talk to people

987
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 5: around him. I just I want to understand everywhere that

988
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 5: he goes and where he comes from in his background.

989
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 5: So it's I still pinch myself every time he's on

990
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 5: the floor, and you know, when he's been hurt. It's

991
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 5: definitely unfortunate last year. It's weird to be back here

992
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 5: because I haven't been back in our team hotel since

993
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 5: I found out Victor had a blood clot and I

994
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:20,280
Speaker 5: was in the gym working out and I called Sean

995
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,800
Speaker 5: immediately when I found out, and we I was walking

996
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,320
Speaker 5: on the treadmill for twenty minutes, just like, is this

997
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 5: really happening? How is he going to be for the

998
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 5: rest of his life? Not even the basketball stuff, and

999
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 5: it just put a damper on the season, you know,

1000
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,399
Speaker 5: with coach Pop going down and then Victor going down.

1001
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 5: It just was a whirl when I saw every single

1002
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 5: thing I could see in the NBA and my rookie year,

1003
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 5: you know, with Pop, with Wemby, with making a big tray,

1004
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,399
Speaker 5: with Darren Fox. The Spurs were caught in LA last

1005
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:51,879
Speaker 5: year for five days because of the LA fires. We

1006
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 5: were stuck in a hotel and didn't know what was

1007
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 5: going on. Had the game canceled. I saw a fan unfortunately,

1008
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,919
Speaker 5: have a heart attack right as the game was about

1009
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 5: to start. He was okay, thankfully. But and then the travel,

1010
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,760
Speaker 5: the Rodeo road trip. So I've been through it all already.

1011
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 5: So Shawn's always like, what else you need to see? Man,

1012
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 5: seen it everything I did. Actually I did not go

1013
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 5: get I did not get to go to Paris. We

1014
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 5: had to broadcast remotely. Oh Sewan got to go okay,

1015
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 5: because you know he's Shawn Elliott. But we stayed back

1016
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 5: and did our remote broadcast. It's kind of the trend

1017
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 5: of the league now is if teams are going abroad,

1018
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:29,959
Speaker 5: they're they're having us stay back to do the brother. Hey,

1019
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 5: I'm just I'm just told where to show up and

1020
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 5: I'll call the game.

1021
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:34,839
Speaker 4: Ready, yeah, stay ready.

1022
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: Exactly What did you think of Carter Bryant's dunk performance?

1023
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 5: Fantastic. I felt bad for him at the end because

1024
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 5: he really wanted it. But we have been seeing this

1025
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 5: since day one. I know this kick can jump, I

1026
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 5: know this kick can fly. And he goes to he

1027
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,439
Speaker 5: went to Arizona. Shawn Elliot went Arizona. There's love there.

1028
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 5: And so every time Carter gets to do something in

1029
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 5: the game. I can already feel Sean smiling and I

1030
00:47:57,239 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 5: look over and he's like, yeah, Carter, like let's go.

1031
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 5: So one of the the most and he had trouble

1032
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 5: earlier in the year finishing dunks. I mean, he was

1033
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 5: missing some dunks. His teammates gave him some crap for

1034
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 5: it if he missed three more dunks for shaving your

1035
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 5: head type thing that they told him that because Victor

1036
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:15,919
Speaker 5: and Kelden obviously shaved their jack style Jack the Jackal

1037
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 5: shaved their heads. The ball boys shave their heads. I

1038
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 5: have a nice fade, so I'm trying to keep that.

1039
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 5: But maybe if maybe, if they win the championship.

1040
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 4: I'll shave it.

1041
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: Oh there we go. That's good record.

1042
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 4: I'll host the championship parade.

1043
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 5: Balld Maybe you got it, you got it?

1044
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw you tweet. When we interviewed Dylan Harper

1045
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: at our internal content day, we knew he would be

1046
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 1: a media star, and you brought this up because he

1047
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:44,879
Speaker 1: was doing a bunch of stuff at All Star. Yeah,

1048
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 1: he was the media, he was the correspondent. So you

1049
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 1: saw this instantly in talking to.

1050
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:51,400
Speaker 4: Do oh yeah, oh yeah.

1051
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 5: So for to pull back the curtain, before Media Day,

1052
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 5: which is in front of everybody. Each NBA team holds

1053
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 5: a content day, internal content day, so they all the

1054
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 5: stuff you see in the JumboTron before games, interviews on

1055
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:06,720
Speaker 5: our broadcasts, that stuff is all pre taped and done

1056
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 5: a couple of days before Media Day. And so I

1057
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 5: got to sit down with each guy and go through

1058
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 5: a list of questions. And Dylan, I, he just sits down,

1059
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 5: and I was on a So I had to interview Victor,

1060
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,319
Speaker 5: so and to make it look good on TV, I

1061
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:19,760
Speaker 5: just sit.

1062
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:20,399
Speaker 4: On a booster seat.

1063
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 5: Right now, I'm six feet I feel like I'm tall

1064
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 5: for the normal person.

1065
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:26,360
Speaker 1: Sure, we actually have to do that for Skins.

1066
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 5: Yeah, man's that's that's that's a shot right there.

1067
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 3: Wa.

1068
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1069
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 5: But I had to sit on a booster seat, and

1070
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:39,800
Speaker 5: so I did that for Victor. And then Dylan was

1071
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:41,760
Speaker 5: the next guy to come in and he immediately sits

1072
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,040
Speaker 5: down and starts roasting me for being on.

1073
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 4: A booster seat.

1074
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 5: And I was like, yo, man, like chill, like you

1075
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 5: just got here, Like I'm trying to interview Victor, and

1076
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:52,799
Speaker 5: so I'll take off the booster seat. And I could

1077
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 5: just tell he has a great personality, and we were

1078
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 5: talking and I was like, so, what's like, are you

1079
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 5: good to other sports? And he he was like, I'm

1080
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:04,359
Speaker 5: good at every support and so like he has, he's

1081
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 5: just entertaining and I love that about him. And so, yeah,

1082
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 5: when I saw him pop up on my social media

1083
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 5: feed of him with the Mike interviewing guys, interviewing Steph Curry,

1084
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 5: him and Yiannis going back and forth, no surprise. And

1085
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:17,879
Speaker 5: he sat down with us after a couple of games

1086
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,840
Speaker 5: with Sean and I postgame and he's broken down film.

1087
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:24,319
Speaker 5: I'm like, you'd be a broadcaster someday, dude, So who knows,

1088
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 5: Maybe that's in the cards for him. Maybe.

1089
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 2: So one of my favorite questions you asked in these

1090
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 2: twenty four seconds with the Spurs is you're asking all

1091
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 2: the guys.

1092
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:35,799
Speaker 1: Do you say you all y'all? Are you guys? As

1093
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:37,840
Speaker 1: a Northeasterner, what do you say?

1094
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 5: Well, so, I'm from, like I said, pretty much, Boston

1095
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 5: and they do not say y'all up there. So, but

1096
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 5: my first job in my career was in Tulsa, Oklahoma,

1097
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 5: so I got used to the Southern way of speaking.

1098
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 5: So I'm voting now, I say y'all, yeah, lot, and

1099
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:54,840
Speaker 5: just it's easier.

1100
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:55,439
Speaker 4: It makes sense.

1101
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 5: So I go back home and say y'all to my

1102
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 5: parents and they're like, give me a look. But then

1103
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 5: when I go home and hear them say wata poky ka,

1104
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh God, is that really what I sounded

1105
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 5: like when I was younger? The answer is actually no,

1106
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 5: I don't know why. I never really had a Boston accent.

1107
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 5: My parents do, grandparents, everybody, my friends, but I don't so,

1108
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 5: but yeah, I'm going with y'all.

1109
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, we switched over to we don't have to have to.

1110
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 1: How do you feel about the first chances here? Going

1111
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:27,800
Speaker 1: all the way potentially you shaving your head at the parade,

1112
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:30,879
Speaker 1: but talking out, I mean, like you heard the first

1113
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: part of the show here, like it's very rare for

1114
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 1: a team to get into the play postseason and then

1115
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 1: run the gauntlet or go very very far. You think

1116
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 1: they need to take their lumps? Will they? What's your

1117
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 1: opinion on them?

1118
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting. I've been listening to a bunch of

1119
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 5: podcasts and you guys again do a great job, and

1120
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 5: everyone was like, Wow, why didn't they make a move

1121
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 5: at the deadline there?

1122
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:48,440
Speaker 4: At second seed?

1123
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,239
Speaker 5: They have a chance, And I think you know, Brian Right,

1124
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 5: the general manager, Mitch Johnson, the whole staff. They just

1125
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 5: believe that this team can do it and they want

1126
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 5: to see what their young squad can do. They have

1127
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 5: a great mix of veteran guys, young stars, great personalities,

1128
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 5: vets that have been around even you know, some of

1129
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 5: the vets, like Devin Vessel, hasn't necessarily played in the

1130
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 5: playoffs or experienced that, but knows what to do to

1131
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 5: win an NBA game. And I think there is a

1132
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 5: good shot that this team finds magic and with the

1133
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 5: right matchups. It's all about matchups. You know, we've obviously

1134
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 5: seen the way they play against the Thunder is so

1135
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 5: interesting because they play the same way. They want to

1136
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 5: push the pace, they turn you over. The Spurs have

1137
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 5: been sort of teetering in that thirteen to fifteen range

1138
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 5: of pace, and Mitch wants them to play even faster,

1139
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 5: and they played faster at the start of the year,

1140
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 5: slowed down because they didn't have a lot of their

1141
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 5: guys in the lineup, and so when they play faster

1142
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 5: at their best and that's why the Thunder is so

1143
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 5: good too. So when they match up, it's like two

1144
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 5: great forces going up against each other. So I would

1145
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 5: love that to be the Western Conference Finals. I think

1146
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 5: everyone wants that to be. They just need to consistently

1147
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 5: hit shots, and that's sort of been the downfalls. Sometimes

1148
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:01,359
Speaker 5: they don't at their shots well. We've seen them win

1149
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 5: games where they haven't necessarily had the three ball well,

1150
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:06,279
Speaker 5: and it's just because Number one has gone berserk and

1151
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,320
Speaker 5: scored forty points and no one can stop him. So

1152
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 5: when he plays that way, when he plays mad, and

1153
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:15,399
Speaker 5: the Spurs make their shots and Castle's being that distributor guy,

1154
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 5: I don't see a reason why the West is obviously

1155
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 5: way tougher than the East. So I you know, everyone

1156
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 5: always like this year with the with the NFC Championship

1157
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 5: game in the NFL there everyone was like, that's the

1158
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 5: super Bowl, which I got slightly offended because I am

1159
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 5: a Patriots fan.

1160
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 4: You can boom me, by the way, if you hit

1161
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 4: a Patriots Yep, there you go.

1162
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 5: But so it could be the same way as like

1163
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 5: this Western Conference Finals could be the NBA Finals. No

1164
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:40,719
Speaker 5: slight to anyone in the East. I just think that

1165
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 5: the West is more talented. So if they could do

1166
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:44,840
Speaker 5: the West, I'm picking the Spurs.

1167
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 1: Spurs are zero to two incredibly against the Suns, who

1168
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: they've played tonight.

1169
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:50,720
Speaker 4: Isn't that weird?

1170
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 1: Suns are a good team, so are great.

1171
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:54,479
Speaker 4: Sounds are pretty they're good.

1172
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,799
Speaker 1: You have, like, you know, a key to a Spurs

1173
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 1: victory tonight or something to watch as like they start

1174
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: back up here in the second half. Always maybe a

1175
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: weird game too.

1176
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:06,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, break, I think you know, well, first thing, Dylan

1177
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 5: Brooks will not be in the lineup.

1178
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 4: He is suspended.

1179
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:12,839
Speaker 1: That's right. They finally got him, they three of them.

1180
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:14,720
Speaker 1: He's nineteen texts or something.

1181
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 5: He is suspended, and he is one of those guys

1182
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:19,880
Speaker 5: that guards Victor extremely well. Yeah, just because of the

1183
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 5: physicality the tenacity that he brings. And I respect him

1184
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,319
Speaker 5: a lot because he's he's made himself a really really

1185
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 5: good NBA player, So you know that helps that he's

1186
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 5: not in the lineup tonight. But I just think get

1187
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 5: Victor going early. We've seen it, you know, twenty five

1188
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 5: points in the first quarter or twenty seven whatever it

1189
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 5: was against the Lakers.

1190
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 4: That was remarkable.

1191
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 5: And you could say, yeah, the Lakers didn't have their

1192
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 5: stars in the lineup or whatever, but to still do that,

1193
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:46,759
Speaker 5: it's crazy. So just feed the big guy Early Sean

1194
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 5: always talks about it on the broadcast. Feed him Early,

1195
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 5: let everyone else eat after that. I think that's that's

1196
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 5: the key to this game, to every game, and limit

1197
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:57,360
Speaker 5: the three point shooting. I think the Spurs had struggled

1198
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 5: earlier in the year with their three point def vents.

1199
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:02,880
Speaker 5: They've given up some open three point looks and you know,

1200
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 5: guys like Devin Booker and Colin Gillespie got really hot

1201
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 5: in the in the first couple of games. So just

1202
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:12,719
Speaker 5: limit the threes, give the battle the big man, win

1203
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 5: the game, move on to Saturday, win that game, and

1204
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 5: then win the rest of the games after the Yeah,

1205
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 5: very simple, just win.

1206
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1207
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:24,239
Speaker 3: Tonight's line is the Spurs by seven and a half

1208
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 3: favorede over the Phoenix Suns. You're the hottest team in

1209
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 3: the NBA, having won six games. No, Dylan Brooks, they

1210
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 3: got avenge for those two losses. So that's why both

1211
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 3: Skeets and I have taken the Spurs to cover. We're

1212
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 3: not pandering, We're just taking the Spurs to cover that

1213
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 3: eight points while our man Trey riding with the Suns.

1214
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 1: Well, I dare you and the CASA Day Spurs.

1215
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:48,720
Speaker 2: The only way for me to get a win tonight

1216
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 2: is if Wenby hits a buzzer beater, Spurs win but

1217
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 2: they don't cover, that's still a win.

1218
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:57,239
Speaker 1: I can pander just as hard. I am with you

1219
00:55:57,280 --> 00:55:59,240
Speaker 1: on that, because we're gonna be at the game tonight, okay,

1220
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 1: And it's like, yeah, got the Spurs in our pick

1221
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 1: up little battle, But like, I want a close game.

1222
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,480
Speaker 1: Let's say interesting, you say that as a broadcasters too.

1223
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:06,520
Speaker 1: It's like, you want a close game.

1224
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 5: Oh, any NBA, any NFL, MLB, they all, we all

1225
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 5: want close games. And the buzzer beaters are great. Yeah, so

1226
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:14,880
Speaker 5: if it's a Webbie buzzer beater, sign me up.

1227
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: Okay, But Tess and I have the spurs by eat

1228
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:20,319
Speaker 1: points or more, K's got the dog's sons there.

1229
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:22,440
Speaker 2: Do you have like a call in your back pocket

1230
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 2: for a buzzer beater or for is there are there

1231
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:27,240
Speaker 2: things you're saving for these huge moments?

1232
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 5: I always get that question and my response is no.

1233
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:35,359
Speaker 5: And the reason why I say that is it needs

1234
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 5: to be organic. It needs to be in the moment.

1235
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 5: It needs to feel that emotion of whatever is going on.

1236
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 5: And so if I come in writing something down or

1237
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 5: have this single catchphrase it and it doesn't fit the moment,

1238
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 5: then that lives on forever and I'm gonna be like

1239
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 5: that wasn't that good?

1240
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 4: Or you know so?

1241
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:57,799
Speaker 5: And there are guys around the NBA that have catchphrases

1242
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:01,319
Speaker 5: and they're known for it, and that's awesome. That's just

1243
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 5: not the way that I've been brought up to do

1244
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 5: the game. And so I have multiple things that I've

1245
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 5: said from time to time. He's not human, he's an alien.

1246
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 5: I'll pull out some French every now and then. You know,

1247
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 5: if he does something amazing, I'll say say foo, which

1248
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 5: means that's amazing, Victor. But for a game winner like that,

1249
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:21,439
Speaker 5: it's just whatever comes from my brain out the mouth,

1250
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:25,680
Speaker 5: and that's just you know. I always tell people I've

1251
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 5: been wanting to do this since I was twelve and

1252
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 5: I would open up my Christmas present every Christmas Day

1253
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 5: and it was NBA two K, and I would rush downstairs,

1254
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 5: turn on the Xbox, turn off the announcer sound, and

1255
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 5: spend six hours on Christmas Day calling the game to

1256
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 5: myself and pretending to be that guy. So every time

1257
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 5: I sit in that chair, I tell people that I

1258
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 5: want to be that twelve year old kid that dream

1259
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 5: to be here and just have that loving passion for

1260
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 5: the game come through.

1261
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite catch phrase from one of

1262
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:57,320
Speaker 1: the greats or a mount rushmore of catchphrases?

1263
00:57:57,480 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there's a lot of a Man.

1264
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 5: I mean, I said, Harlan's, you know, maybe my all

1265
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:05,320
Speaker 5: time favorite announcer, and he's had he said so many.

1266
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 5: I grew up listening to Mike Gorman and Boston and

1267
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 5: his you know hit. He had to catch phrase ever

1268
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 5: for every buzzer beater. His it was got it and

1269
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 5: it was so simple. And so I don't try to

1270
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 5: overdo things that. I try to be on the lesser

1271
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 5: side of talking because the pictures tell more of the story.

1272
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 5: Try to let our producer director work their magic. We

1273
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 5: have a we have a great crew. I've slid into

1274
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:29,439
Speaker 5: a crew where they've been here thirty years, Shawn's been.

1275
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 5: This is Sean's twenty fifth yere announcing his career. Wow,

1276
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 5: announcing is longer than his playing career. So we always

1277
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 5: give him crap like, man, you're you're an announcer first player, second,

1278
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:42,880
Speaker 5: you're a media guy. And he's always rolling his eyes

1279
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 5: like that's true, you know, but uh, I try to

1280
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:48,160
Speaker 5: give our crew a lot of credit and let them

1281
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 5: let them do their magic. So I punch the call.

1282
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 5: I'm in. I'm out let them do their thing. But

1283
00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 5: I I I'm in a nerd. I could spend hours

1284
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 5: talking about announcers, so I'm not going to bore people

1285
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Speaker 5: with that, but I will have to do another hour. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 5: appreciate you joining us. This is awesome, man, Thank you

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Speaker 5: for shaking every one.

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Speaker 1: Spurs play by play announcer, thank you. We want to

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Speaker 1: thank Leger for bringing us down here to Austin.

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Speaker 5: Shout out Legend man, Jersey pass first. Cool, they have

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Speaker 5: some great people. They have some great people that work

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Speaker 5: for Legend. You get some great great gears.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: No, absolutely, thanks to Dan and Keith and their teams

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Speaker 1: for helping put this together. Give it up for JD

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Speaker 1: and Ash and dj D money over there the money,

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Speaker 1: uh and thank you to h to the Spurs of course,

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Speaker 1: and thanks to everybody for coming out here. We didn't know.

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Speaker 1: We thought like two people were gonna show up and

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Speaker 1: this is a nice little turnout on a Thursday morning.

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Speaker 1: Hope everybody had your coffee and uh yeah, chop it

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Speaker 1: up with us after. Thank you again Blipper bros. You

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Speaker 1: heard it here first. Have a great time, turn up,

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Speaker 1: love you guys, awesome.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Austin and remember Jacob Toeyvi's show tomorrow Four

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Speaker 3: Seasons right.

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Speaker 5: Yes, five to seven at the four Seasons Friday, the

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Speaker 5: Other a beast where basketball games are good.

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Speaker 1: But do you want to do you want to sing

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Speaker 1: us off here as we will say that for tomorrow. Okay,

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Speaker 1: embrace the day people, m

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Speaker 2: M.