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Speaker 2: a good weekend. Lee, You're still in New York riding

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Speaker 2: subways and looking at lego and stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: The boys really combined risky business with movie Big at

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Speaker 3: Fao Schwartz on Saturday afternoon as well. Interesting that was

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Speaker 3: And then uh, and then I took in took in

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Speaker 3: the baseball yesterday Yankees Mets Big Subway Series rivals there

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Speaker 3: to watch. There was three things that were chanted yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Did did judge Sucker Dinger for you?

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Speaker 3: the Yankees blew the save. The guy I can't remember

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Speaker 3: Oh man, I'm just like, it's wings, it's burgers, it's dogs,

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Speaker 4: Everyone was having a great time.

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Speaker 3: I was talking to people, I was asking people to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you got it, man.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god. It's supposed to be an NBA finals

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, let's have one more question. You said that

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Speaker 4: We're having a great old time. Oh man, it was

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Speaker 4: so did you go solo?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I just went solo.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because standing room tickets were forty bucks. The

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Speaker 5: So who took that stage photo of you?

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Speaker 3: I'm saying, that's my man, that's my that's my friend.

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Speaker 4: Aye, buddy, he said when he left.

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Speaker 2: Have you heard one single? I'm walking here yet?

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Speaker 3: Good fun, good fun. At the ball game July the fourth,

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Speaker 2: Finals matchup that tips on Tuesday night? They moved it

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Speaker 5: Well, it starts with Yanni Stetakoopo from the Bucks side.

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Speaker 5: So when is he coming back? And when should he

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Speaker 5: and there's some people out there thinking, you know, they

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Speaker 5: But I think that's a little bokers. I think you

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Speaker 5: It takes a little bit and so play around him.

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Speaker 2: You'd be giving up a whole sun jumpers from Kroh

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Speaker 3: if he's hitting those threes, pulling eight and away from

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Speaker 4: For the Bucks. So that's what he needs to do.

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Speaker 4: He needs to be on his game from the start.

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Speaker 2: Got all of the bigs there, Lee's got his eye

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Speaker 1: Well? I hope you got your tickets for the Chris Middleton.

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Speaker 1: Ferris will because if the Bucks are going to win

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta say I was looking. I got one

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Speaker 2: course you would have the Sons probably winning in that scenario,

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Speaker 2: that I'm betting on Chris Middleton, because that's one issue,

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Speaker 2: like the pharrispel does go down eventually, but he was

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he suddenly turned into Kyrie for a couple positions,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Chris Middleton won two games for the Milwaukee Bucks

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Speaker 5: won Game six. He really did. And yeah, Drew Holliday

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Speaker 5: I mean, it just feels like the clubhouse, the locker

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Speaker 5: I mean, you see the matchups really change in this one.

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Speaker 5: going to be an easy series for Chris Paul and

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00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:33,480
Speaker 5: same goes for Chris Middleton on the other side. And

438
00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:37,480
Speaker 5: then I thought Devin Booker would just feel so good

439
00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,880
Speaker 5: to be free of the shackles of Patrick Beverly going

440
00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,440
Speaker 5: into the finals here. But I think it's going to

441
00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,520
Speaker 5: be annoying as well going into this series. I know

442
00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,120
Speaker 5: you guys talk about pac conton Dante DiVincenzo being out,

443
00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:51,680
Speaker 5: but I think they try and stick the slower PJ.

444
00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,920
Speaker 5: Tucker on him as much as possible, try and try

445
00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:58,320
Speaker 5: and just get under his skin like Patrick Beverly did,

446
00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:00,879
Speaker 5: because he started off the series well in the Western

447
00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,879
Speaker 5: Conference finals and then you know, he got his shots up,

448
00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:05,240
Speaker 5: he got his numbers up, but he didn't shoot a

449
00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:07,879
Speaker 5: good percentage. He wasn't his his self and I think

450
00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:09,800
Speaker 5: he's gonna feel good going into Game one. I think

451
00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,200
Speaker 5: the Bucks would be smart to try and piss him

452
00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,400
Speaker 5: off like they did with Patrick Beverly, Like the Clippers

453
00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,600
Speaker 5: did with Patrick Beverly. Excuse me in in the Western

454
00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,800
Speaker 5: Conference finals, just anger him, get Tucker on him. That's

455
00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,000
Speaker 5: his job. I think. I think Tucker doesn't have a

456
00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:27,000
Speaker 5: good a good matchup otherwise he's out there for defense.

457
00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:28,960
Speaker 5: You throw him on Jake Crowder and Michel Bridges is

458
00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,440
Speaker 5: kind of a waste. You know, books should be a

459
00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,680
Speaker 5: lot faster than PJ. Tucker, of course, but I think

460
00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,199
Speaker 5: that's that's you gotta get dirty. I think that's that's

461
00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:41,160
Speaker 5: that's that's that's the really interesting thing here, Paul versus Holiday, Yeah,

462
00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:45,880
Speaker 5: Tucker versus Booker, Middleton versus Bridges. I mean, it's just.

463
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Speaker 2: Are you excited for these finals? Because obviously you're seeing

464
00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,399
Speaker 2: even some people in the stream team like saying like

465
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,560
Speaker 2: they're shitting on these finals, like they're like, who cares

466
00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:56,399
Speaker 2: Bucks versus Sons? You sound hyped? Tasks? And do you think?

467
00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,600
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't care really ultimately about ratings, but

468
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,200
Speaker 2: it'll be I'm fascinated to see how many people tune

469
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,400
Speaker 2: into this because these are not you know, huge big

470
00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:08,639
Speaker 2: market cities here, NBA teams. What do you think I

471
00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:09,440
Speaker 2: like basketball.

472
00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:10,159
Speaker 5: I'm tuning in.

473
00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:11,040
Speaker 2: I think I hear you.

474
00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:12,959
Speaker 5: I hear you. There's there's gonna be people who are

475
00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:16,119
Speaker 5: turned off, no doubt, no doubt. Yeah, it's not it

476
00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,400
Speaker 5: may not be juicy enough. Yanis would definitely help out.

477
00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,879
Speaker 5: He's got to come back. But yeah, I get it.

478
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,480
Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's Milwaukee Phoenix, two two franchises that

479
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:29,640
Speaker 5: haven't won historically. The Superstar storylines are sort of shared

480
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,520
Speaker 5: with Den Booker and Chris Paul and Phoenix and then

481
00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:36,280
Speaker 5: you know without Yanni's Yeah, it's it's not it's not

482
00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:40,360
Speaker 5: great in terms of the big market attraction. But man,

483
00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 5: they've been playing so so well. So yeah, I've I've again,

484
00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,840
Speaker 5: there hasn't been a crap ton of blowouts in these playoffs.

485
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Speaker 5: It's been really, really entertaining to watch two teams staying

486
00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,160
Speaker 5: close to each other. And I expect this to happen,

487
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:55,119
Speaker 5: you know, for the next couple of weeks here for sure.

488
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,280
Speaker 2: Wild stat from the Sporting News Jordan Greer. I saw

489
00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 2: Bobby Portis and Jake Prowder have each scored eleven points

490
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 2: or more in seven playoff games this year each right,

491
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 2: and when they do, the combined record for their teams

492
00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:10,879
Speaker 2: is thirteen and one. Basically, just like if those guys

493
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,200
Speaker 2: contribute eleven or more points here in the playoffs, they

494
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 2: generally win. There was one game that they didn't. I

495
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 2: think Port has had eleven in a loss to the Hawks. There,

496
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 2: but those guys, I mean there are X factors, No doubtly.

497
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Speaker 2: Is there anyone else that you would include in the mix?

498
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,280
Speaker 2: Are we going to see, like, you know, can Campaign

499
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,040
Speaker 2: change a quarter again or a game? Or someone on

500
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 2: the Bucks?

501
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 3: What do you say, Cam Campaign? Cam Johnson as well,

502
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 3: he's been good for the Suns. But yeah, yeah, Cam

503
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,679
Speaker 3: Cam and Chris Chris, that's too well, Actually Cam Cam

504
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 3: run the same team Chrim Stuart, well, you know he's

505
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:45,040
Speaker 3: interested in you know when you were asking tests, I mean,

506
00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:47,240
Speaker 3: you've got the number two Phoenix Suns versus the number

507
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,040
Speaker 3: three Milwaukee Bucks. So it's not as though either of

508
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 3: these teams weren't legit contenders when the playoffs started here.

509
00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 3: I mean the Milwaukee Bucks, could you know, they were

510
00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 3: probably the favorite. Maybe Brooklyn I spose coming into the season.

511
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,120
Speaker 3: Now obviously Yannis is not there, but they were embarrassed.

512
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 3: Remember after Game two against the Brooklyn Nets. So They've

513
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,679
Speaker 3: had to overcome some adversity to get to where they

514
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,679
Speaker 3: are now. They've deserved to be in the finals.

515
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:10,119
Speaker 4: They had to.

516
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:11,879
Speaker 3: You know, they were trailing against the Nets, they were

517
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,480
Speaker 3: trailing against the Hawks, they lose Yannis and they still

518
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 3: fight through a win. So for me, I don't care

519
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,919
Speaker 3: at all that it's not you know, Nets and Lakers,

520
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:22,720
Speaker 3: as we possibly thought before the playoff started. I think

521
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,200
Speaker 3: both of these teams are deserving. The Phoenix Suns themselves,

522
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 3: I mean, they were down to one against the Lakers.

523
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 3: I think I called a douchey on deck in that series,

524
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 3: and they fought back and overcame the Lakers. I mean

525
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 3: it turned out. I mean, I think before the playoffs

526
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 3: it was like, oh, this is a terrible matchup for

527
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 3: the Suns. They're going to get smoked by the Lakers.

528
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,640
Speaker 3: And they didn't. They won that series. You know, they

529
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,919
Speaker 3: had to overcome the Denver Nuggets. Of course they were

530
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,679
Speaker 3: missing some players there, but they still had to beat them.

531
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Speaker 3: For a team that, outside of Chris Paul and J

532
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,679
Speaker 3: Crowd is not experienced, they've earned their spot in the finals.

533
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 3: So I'm as excited as I would be for any

534
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 3: other playoff series any other finals, because I'm not that

535
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 3: one who's like, we've got to have.

536
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:57,399
Speaker 4: A big market, big player.

537
00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 3: This is going to be incredible to see Chris Paul

538
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,040
Speaker 3: finally into the finals on that side, And of course

539
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 3: for the Bucks and coach Budenholzer. I mean, he was

540
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 3: gone if they didn't really make it this far, Budenholzer,

541
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 3: and instead he's shown some resilience and some fight and

542
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 3: gotten his team here. So could I think he's gone

543
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,399
Speaker 3: by the way, would he could?

544
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Speaker 2: Is he? Yeah? No, I think.

545
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 4: He's safe now.

546
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 3: I think he's safe now because let's say, let's say

547
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 3: they get swept. Let's say worst case scenario for the Bucks.

548
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 3: The built in excuse already is there that Yannis is

549
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 3: potentially going to miss at least a couple of games here.

550
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 3: But even still, I think Budenholzer has done enough to

551
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 3: show that he was able to get his team back

552
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,639
Speaker 3: from from where they were after Game two against Brooklyn.

553
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 3: I think that was like and they nearly lost that game.

554
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 3: Remember Game three, that was that eighty six eighty three game.

555
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 3: I think it was there where the Nets led with

556
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:47,159
Speaker 3: a minute to go on that Kevin Durant three. So

557
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 3: Budenholzer has doesn't read Twitter. There's no doubt about it,

558
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 3: because if he did, he would have just walked away.

559
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 3: But they are both very deserving finalists. And people can

560
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 3: point at injuries, and yes, they've both had to face

561
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,159
Speaker 3: teams with other injuries have had their own, but that

562
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,199
Speaker 3: doesn't mean anything to me. It's like, you still have

563
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:05,680
Speaker 3: to win the games, and that's what they've done. So

564
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 3: I'm as excited as as as I've ever been for

565
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 3: fun as I think it's gonna be great.

566
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Speaker 2: It's good to hear that. Lee. We'll be talking about

567
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 2: the games every day here on this show. You're excited.

568
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 1: Here's a quick X factor for you. Are the Bucks

569
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,160
Speaker 1: ever gonna make three pointers in the playoffs? I feel

570
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 1: like we've been talking about every round there's a twenty

571
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 1: three point game coming. They're shooting thirty one percent for

572
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,879
Speaker 1: three so far in this playoffs. They're shooting open shots.

573
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 1: They got a lot of open shots against the Hawks

574
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 1: that were brickfests. But this is a team that shot

575
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,919
Speaker 1: nearly thirty nine percent from three during the regular season

576
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 1: and that's why you see those stats where if Bobby

577
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 1: Portis scores eleven points, the Bucks are looking nice, probably

578
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,920
Speaker 1: because he made some threes. That's a huge place where

579
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: he can have an impact on the game. So that's

580
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: still an X factor in me. At some point we're

581
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,120
Speaker 1: gonna see a good shooting game from the Milwaukee Bucks

582
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 1: and they're gonna need it playing without Yiannis.

583
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 3: If that's the case, well, Britain Forbes, i mean, remember

584
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 3: it was that.

585
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: It's like ninety years ago. It's like most of them

586
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,120
Speaker 1: threes this postseason.

587
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 3: Didn't He hit like five in about you know, a

588
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 3: four minute period against But he actually is probably an

589
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 3: X factor then in this series. I mean, maybe he's

590
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 3: the sort of guy who does get hot for a

591
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 3: quarter or two to give the book the Bucks a

592
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 3: little bit of a push there because they are certainly

593
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 3: going to have extra shots and and Budenholzer has certainly

594
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 3: tightened that rotation. He doesn't go too deep and if

595
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 3: guys like Brent Forbes aren't producing, they get the hook

596
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 3: pretty quickly, so there will be an opportunity and Budenholzer

597
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:28,679
Speaker 3: needs someone like him to step up.

598
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 4: But he's got to produce as soon as.

599
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 3: He gets out there because he takes some wild shots, but.

600
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 4: He can get hot.

601
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,880
Speaker 3: He's showed us he can get hot. That's it's more

602
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 3: an anomaly than the than the regular right now, but

603
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 3: that that could happen in the finals soon.

604
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,719
Speaker 2: He's not out there for defense, that's for day. I'm

605
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 2: sure you could exploit him on that hand. But you know,

606
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 2: if he's hitting a couple of threes, you're going to

607
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 2: live with that. I'm sure he'll see some minutes on

608
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 2: campaign and stuff like that. Tasses any other X factor

609
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 2: as you're watching for in this series. Who's going to

610
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 2: have the better home crowd? Both solid, but who's you

611
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 2: know we're gonna hear so if you have to plays, man,

612
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,360
Speaker 2: I can't wait to hear the free throw count out

613
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 2: again or up. I guess I should say.

614
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 5: As far as I'm concerned, it's the Milwaukee Bucks with

615
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 5: the home crown advantage. You're gonna see a lot of

616
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 5: Hall Cogan shirt tears. I can't advise it enough. If

617
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 5: you can watch the NBA Game Time app or through

618
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 5: the NBA League Pass up, you can see during the

619
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 5: commercials these Bucks fans, they chug beers, they bring they

620
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 5: bring signs. I mean, it's it's hard to turn away.

621
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,719
Speaker 5: It's hard to go go to the fridge. And go

622
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 5: have a pee break because I want to see the large,

623
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 5: large people tear their their shirts. And I'm saying large

624
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,719
Speaker 5: people because every time it's somebody huge that knows that.

625
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 5: So you know, I always look for is it a

626
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 5: pre tear or is it just a freshy, because you know,

627
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 5: sometimes there's a good acting. Even in the Milwaukee crowd,

628
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,239
Speaker 5: they're like, ah, this isn't happening, but it's a pre

629
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 5: tear and in there it's rapid.

630
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: Wow, it's a good time.

631
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Speaker 2: You're telling me this is happening regularly for the it's

632
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 2: a thing.

633
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 5: It's a it's a thing in Milwaukee. It's winning helps.

634
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 5: So if they're getting popped, then no, I would still

635
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 5: think it happens. Let's get this rally rip to get

636
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 5: our team going. Yeah, it's happening.

637
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 3: Man.

638
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: Ziggy's a big Bucks fan. He says that a guy

639
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: ripped like eight shirts in one game. So maybe it's

640
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 1: like every single uh, every single commercial break, go to

641
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: this guy chug a beer, tear off his shirt. Is

642
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: that an advantage for the Bucks? Maybe? So only time

643
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: will tell.

644
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 2: I think the Sun's crowd is actually better than the

645
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,199
Speaker 2: Milwaukee Bucks crowd too. I think They've been incredible in

646
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 2: the postseason.

647
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: It's the outside. It's the outside from Milwaukee that they

648
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 1: have the advantage. Unfortunately, Deer District, the Deer District is bumping,

649
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: but you're right inside. They're just tearing their shirts off meanwhile,

650
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: and they're all just screaming their heads off.

651
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun to watch. Yeah. Again, I am

652
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 2: so excited that the NBA decided to move this thing

653
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 2: up till Tuesday. I have a smart decision here now. Now,

654
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 2: maybe Bucks fans are like, what come on, we could

655
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 2: have used those days to get you on has rested up.

656
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 2: I get that it'd be a little, uh, a little

657
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 2: tough to swallow that, but I mean for the average

658
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 2: or the casual fan, like you want to like you

659
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 2: want to like sort of roll with the momentum too. Yeah.

660
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 2: And if we're saying, like some people are saying, oh Bucks,

661
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 2: Sun's like, well, the last thing you want to do

662
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 2: is like wait a whole week and have like nothing

663
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 2: sort of happening. So I'm excited at this tips Tomorrow night. Yeah.

664
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 3: I think it was Warrior's calves, like maybe the last time.

665
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 3: I think it was like a ten day wait because

666
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 3: the Warriors swept and the Calves won in five and

667
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 3: they just couldn't move it up, and it was like, man,

668
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,479
Speaker 3: this is this is a disaster because you do you

669
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,239
Speaker 3: just want to keep the games playing while people are

670
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 3: still following the NBA.

671
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,479
Speaker 5: But good, those are our best shows though, those are

672
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 5: our best shows. We had ten days off. What were

673
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 5: we doing?

674
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 4: Playoff awards?

675
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, had to get creative. I'm sure we did a

676
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 2: pick and payoff in there somewhere. Anything there's chew up

677
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 2: some time. But yeah, that's too that's too long. Like

678
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 2: we thought we were like, oh, what are we going

679
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 2: to do this whole week here? But it doesn't matter.

680
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,080
Speaker 2: We're right into it. So let's start making predictions on

681
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 2: this again. Stream team. You guys are doing it a

682
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 2: little bit earlier. Drop him again if you want task

683
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 2: to go first? Who you taking? I know, I know

684
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 2: the honest part is a huge question mark, But what's

685
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 2: your gut say?

686
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 5: This may be a little bit of a recentcy biased

687
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 5: pick the fact that we saw the Milwaukee Bucks most

688
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 5: recently the Suns with their time off, but watching Middleton,

689
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 5: Drew and Brooke play at this level is is a

690
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 5: huge factor in my brain right now, I think all

691
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 5: those group of guys, even though the Suns kicked ass

692
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 5: through their first three rounds, I feel like, you know,

693
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 5: if the Bucks can continue to play at somewhat of

694
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 5: that close level with Yanni's in there, I think he

695
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 5: goes in Game one, even if he is a bit

696
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 5: of a decoy out there. I'm rolling with this Bucks

697
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 5: team to be able to continue on throughout these first

698
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 5: few games this I think this is the best team

699
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 5: that the Suns will have faced in the postseason. I

700
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 5: know that it goes without saying, but you know a

701
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 5: lot of people you know thought that, you know, the

702
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 5: West Conference team would be good enough to smash an

703
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 5: Eastern Conference team. I think the Sun the Bucks are

704
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 5: playing their best ball, and that's really important to me.

705
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 5: And and I love the fact that we're seeing, yeah, again,

706
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 5: a couple of the non number one seeds, the non

707
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 5: big stories, big market teams here in the finals. And

708
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 5: hopefully this is just a snowball effect the next few years.

709
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 5: Maybe we give a crap. You know, the casual fan

710
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 5: cares more about the teams that don't have La or

711
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 5: New York in front of their names. So I'm rolling

712
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 5: with it. Man. I think they got the matchups, and

713
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, these these all stars playing at this

714
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 5: all star level. I don't know, I'm buying it. I

715
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 5: think this helps the Bucks having this shorter break as well.

716
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 5: They're the fact that they can go into this series. Yeah,

717
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 5: rolling from Saturday night, it's only a couple of days off.

718
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 5: I think that helps them. So I think they get

719
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 5: off to a good start in this series. So you're

720
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 5: saying Bucks in Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. I'm

721
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 5: going Bucks and six. Give it to me, Brandon Jennings.

722
00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 1: There we go, there we go.

723
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 2: And so who do you taking finals? MVP is in

724
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 2: there too, Well, I mean you're either going, well, I

725
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 2: guess you got three options, probably with the Bucks.

726
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh go Chris.

727
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 5: I guess I think Chris Middleton, uh is the guy

728
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,479
Speaker 5: who's going to score the most. But you know that's

729
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 5: kind of dumb too. I'll change that later on in

730
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 5: the series. That's fine. You know, it's hard to pick

731
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 5: Yanni's right now. But I think Yiannis comes back, and

732
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 5: even though he's not going to be one hundred percent,

733
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 5: I think watching him through games five and six on

734
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 5: the bench, the limp was lessened. The limp was less

735
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 5: pronounced through game five and game six. You got to

736
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 5: watch this game time this NBA app feed. Man, they've

737
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 5: got a camera on Yannis's knee. No, I'm kidding, they don't.

738
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: But well, if it wins the fan though, I think

739
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: you can get one on the whole game.

740
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. Maybe they split it. Maybe we

741
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 5: get one of those or he can't do.

742
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: That, right, Maybe you can think he can vot.

743
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 5: Even though they have an odd number of voters. You

744
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 5: can just have one go to Drew Holliday and the

745
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 5: other guy.

746
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 2: I guess right, you could, so that all right, So

747
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 2: buds and six is what we're really going at there, though, Trey,

748
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 2: go to you next? Who got winning the NBA Finals?

749
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 2: How many games?

750
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: I'm catching major Dirknavitsky vibes from this Suns team and

751
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: Chris Paul And then I saw today on the Athletic

752
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: that the twenty eleven MAVs odds of winning the title

753
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the playoffs was eighteen to one,

754
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: the exact same as the Phoenix Suns at the beginning

755
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,479
Speaker 1: of this wow NBA playoffs. So I'm gonna go Suns

756
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: in six here. I'm a little more nervous about Giannis's

757
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: injury than tass Is. I just think looking back at

758
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: James Harden coming back in his first game, he didn't

759
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: do much. Trey Young didn't do much in his first

760
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: game back. And even if it's only one game for

761
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: Jannis and then he improves for their from there, that's

762
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: one out of seven NBA Finals games already in the toities.

763
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: So I'm going Suns in six. I'm expecting it to

764
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: be pretty tight. I think both games these teams played

765
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: during the regular season, even though the personnel wasn't exactly

766
00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: the same, I think the Suns won both of those

767
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: by one game. Both of these teams played good defense.

768
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: Both of these teams have good guards that should be

769
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: able to match up with each other.

770
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 2: Should be tight.

771
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: Gimme Sons and sex Lee, where are you going?

772
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think the Sons have home court advantage, they

773
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 3: have rest advantage, they have health advantage. All those things,

774
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 3: to me really tilt this heavily towards the Phoenix, Suns

775
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 3: and Yarnis. You know, Trey mentions are Tree Young and

776
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 3: James Harden coming back, but also you go back two

777
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 3: years Kevin Durant when he came back for the Golden

778
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 3: State Warriors, and he clearly wasn't ready and obviously did

779
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 3: much more significant damage to his achilles ten and he

780
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,240
Speaker 3: blew it out there. And that's my concern with Yannis

781
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 3: is like I certainly wouldn't bring him back unless he

782
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 3: was one hundred percent healthy, because the risk that he

783
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 3: does something even more serious, I think is so significant.

784
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 3: So I think in that sense, you know, the Bucks

785
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 3: understand that even if they lose the first two games

786
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 3: that are in Phoenix, it's not great, of course, but

787
00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 3: that's sort of also not a complete catastrophe. If Yannis

788
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 3: can come back for game three and he's completely healthy,

789
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 3: then maybe they've still got time to turn the series around.

790
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 3: So I just think, but Phoenix have got you know,

791
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 3: they've been playing so well, they're confident, they're well coached,

792
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 3: they're so deep, they've got everything in their favor. I really,

793
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 3: I mean analytically I'm saying Sons in five, but really

794
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 3: I'm going Sons in six because you just don't know

795
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 3: what could happen. As well with the Bucks, they've they've

796
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 3: they've overcome some adversity themselves, and if Yannis was to

797
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 3: come back and really be fantastic in games three and four.

798
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 3: If it was that late, then they can still turn

799
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 3: things around. But I'm ultimately going Sons in six because

800
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 3: I hope it goes at least six games. I hope

801
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:40,399
Speaker 3: we have, you know, a fun, close series, and I'm

802
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 3: just going to take the low hangar for Chris. Paul

803
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 3: will be the finals MVP if the Suns win, whether

804
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 3: that's in five, six or seven games, I think it's

805
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 3: going to be his trophy. So I think the Suns win,

806
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 3: but I don't think they you know, I think it's

807
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 3: still going to be a close series. But I just

808
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,760
Speaker 3: think all those advantages I listed earlier just help Phoenix

809
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 3: more and give them a enough of you know, enough

810
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 3: of a bonus if you like to beat the box here.

811
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Sons in seven. I think a part

812
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 2: of that is me definitely praying this goes seven as well.

813
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a tight series. I'm gonna

814
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 2: go Devin Booker for Finals MVP. You guys said it.

815
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 2: He's gonna be unleashed here in this series. It's gonna

816
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 2: be a lot different than that Clipper series. And we

817
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 2: know he's a bucket, so it's tough to imagine the

818
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 2: Sun's winning. I will say, like you said, Lee and

819
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 2: Chris Paul not getting it, just from a narrative standpoint,

820
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,240
Speaker 2: like even if he averages I don't know, like fifteen

821
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 2: to ten, I feel like there's still be like a

822
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 2: lot of support for finals MVP for him, so almost

823
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 2: like almost like a legacy play and a weird little thing.

824
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,839
Speaker 2: But if Booker goes nuts and does what I think

825
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 2: some people are expecting Chris Middleton to do, there's gonna

826
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 2: be some thirty point Booker games. I'm getting out here

827
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 2: in these finals, So I'll go Booker. I'll go with

828
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 2: my guy, and I got the Suns winning in seven.

829
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 2: But I think this is gonna be super close. I

830
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 2: think Giannis plays tomorrow night. I do. I'm with you

831
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 2: Tasks watching him there in the arena with my own eyes, like, okay,

832
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 2: he's He's like like, I don't think he's gonna be

833
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,720
Speaker 2: a hundred percent, but still be honest, at eighty percent

834
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 2: is better than eighty nine percent rest of the league.

835
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 2: So he's still going to deliver, I assume when he's

836
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 2: out there. So I'll go Sons and seven. It's pretty split.

837
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,479
Speaker 2: I'll say in the stream team a lot of people

838
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,240
Speaker 2: picking Bucks and six, a lot of people saying sons

839
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 2: and five and six and stuff like that, so it

840
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 2: should be very very close. Anything you guys want to.

841
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: Add, get your visits in on the No Dunks YouTube page.

842
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: We got to pull up right now. Leading forty eight

843
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: percent of fans have said Sons will win this in

844
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: six or seven, fifteen percent Sons in four or five,

845
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: thirty two Bucks in six or seven, and four percent

846
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 1: only think it's gonna be Bucks in four or five,

847
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 1: which I think is a smart a smart bat there.

848
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 2: Who's ah, who's the first guy to uh, you know,

849
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 2: get a tech or a flagrantile so like to to

850
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 2: go overboard to snap a little bit well crowder crowder crowd,

851
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 2: crowd of PJ.

852
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 4: Tucker are going to get a double.

853
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:52,439
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, okay, that's a good that's.

854
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 3: A couple of bull dogs going out of there. You

855
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 3: know that, I respect each other's game. There'll be a

856
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 3: good bat slap butt slap afterwards, but they'll they'll a

857
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 3: little like get into it with eachada.

858
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:02,320
Speaker 2: Did you say bat slap?

859
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 4: I think I did.

860
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 3: I did all that. I'm just thinking they're gonna wrestle

861
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 3: over a loose bowl. Yeah, it's gonna be one of

862
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 3: those situations where they foughting. Ever like that, the rest

863
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 3: come in double day's and then like you say, yeah.

864
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Speaker 2: Man, respectah, let me slip your ass all right, Okay,

865
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Speaker 2: let's do for all of you again with your finals predictions.

866
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Speaker 2: Who you got winning finals, MVP? How many games and

867
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Speaker 2: all that stuff, and uh yeah, who gets their butt

868
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Speaker 2: slapped first? Make sure you let us know that in

869
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Speaker 2: the comments below this video as well. Okay, we got

870
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Speaker 2: little is this news? But we gotta take a quick

871
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Speaker 2: break here from a sponsor back with no Dunk's time

872
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Speaker 2: for little is this news? Yeah, just a couple of

873
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 2: headlines here for the boys, and everybody in the stream

874
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 2: team debate whether or not their news were the first one.

875
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Speaker 2: NBC Sports Kings lack seventy six ers reported desired Ben

876
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 2: Simmons trade assets tasks Simmons trade rumor is this news?

877
00:38:59,040 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 4: Well?

878
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 5: I got excited when I first read about this or

879
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 5: I first saw the headline, I should say, because I

880
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 5: named Buddy Heels, a guy who just needs a new venue,

881
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 5: a new place to play, a new change of scenery

882
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 5: this offseason. I want him to go somewhere, so I thought, oh,

883
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 5: he could be part of this package that goes to Philadelphia.

884
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 5: Then getting into the article written by James Ham, It's

885
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 5: totally true. There's just not enough coming back to the

886
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,479
Speaker 5: Philadelphia seventy six ers. Buddy Hill is really great, would

887
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 5: you know theoretically pair really well with Joel Embiid shooting

888
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,320
Speaker 5: over ten threes a game. He's in his prime.

889
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: But it's kind of like, you know, a Seth.

890
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 5: Curry replacement without the ball handling at Ben Simmons.

891
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:37,800
Speaker 4: That's a problem.

892
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 5: And then you get Marvin Bagley, I guess would be

893
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 5: the second part of this trade. It works in the

894
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 5: trade machine Healed and Badley for Ben Simmons. But Bagley,

895
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,319
Speaker 5: even if he's in that twenty eighteen draft class and

896
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 5: you have high hopes for him, just like you know

897
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 5: the guys around him and eight and Luca and Trey,

898
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 5: you know, performing well this postseason, he just eats at

899
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 5: Joel Embiid's space. What happened with Al Horford. We just

900
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 5: saw what happened with Ben Simmons. You don't want him

901
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 5: running around the same area as Joel Embiid. He's just

902
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 5: not He's not you know, that that level of player

903
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 5: where you know he can adapt at this point of

904
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 5: his career. So I agree they don't have enough. I

905
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 5: think Buddy Heel should move on. But when you look

906
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 5: up and down that roster, who else can you pay?

907
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,399
Speaker 5: You pair Harrison Barnes with with somebody? I mean, it's

908
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 5: just it's not enough to get Ben Simmons off that team.

909
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 5: You you'd be better off keeping. You'd be better off

910
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 5: keeping him if you're the Sixers and the Kings are

911
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:35,439
Speaker 5: not trading Darren Fox, They're not trading Tyrese Haliburton. Other

912
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 5: than that, not enough for Ben Simmons. Imo, Yeah, that's.

913
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 1: The problem with that. The two players that the Sixers

914
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 1: would really want would fit really next to Nice, next

915
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 1: to Joel Embiid or the two players that the Kings

916
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,919
Speaker 1: no chance would be trading, which is uh, kind of

917
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 1: what it feels like the Sixers are going to run

918
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 1: into a little bit here because there's also in this

919
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 1: piece a report that the Sixers turned down to deal

920
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 1: for Malcolm Brogden and a first round pick from the Pacers,

921
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 1: And to me, that's kind of exactly what the Sixers

922
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: would need, Like Brogden would be an excellent fit next

923
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: to Embiid. I think he would bring the defense. He

924
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: can play without the ball, he can handle and pick

925
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: and roll. But Malcolm Brogden and a first round pick

926
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: for a guy who was a number one draft pick,

927
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:21,280
Speaker 1: an All NBA defensive player, first team the last two seasons,

928
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: and a third team All NBA guard in Ben Simmons,

929
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 1: that's not enough. So it feels like Ben Simmons has

930
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: played his last game as a Sixer, But I don't know.

931
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,320
Speaker 1: They might run him back out there, try and rehabilitate

932
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: that trade value a little bit next season, just because

933
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons like he's awesome in the regular season. He's

934
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: still a really good player. It's just everybody it's impossible

935
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: to ignore his flaws when they come up in the postseason,

936
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: not the best time to be trying to trade him.

937
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 3: I think teams are trying to low ball the Sixes

938
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,359
Speaker 3: a little bit and just see just seeing how frustrated

939
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 3: and annoyed they were with his playoff performance. And yeah,

940
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 3: because I think Brogden is not a bad fit there,

941
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 3: but surely Simmons is worth more than that. And whatever

942
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 3: that thirteenth pick is. And if you are the Sacramento Kings.

943
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 3: Obviously they're not going to do Fox and Tyres Halliburton.

944
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 3: But if you're the Sixers, do you tried and maybe

945
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 3: throw one of those guys in and say we'll take

946
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 3: Buddy Healed and maybe Tyres. That's interesting, that's interesting because

947
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 3: I think no, yeah, but I think if the Kings

948
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 3: are seriously like this and you're getting Ben Simmons all defense,

949
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 3: you know, he's another ball handler there, I just wonder

950
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 3: if there's something there. But I also wonder if the

951
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 3: Sixers are like just sort of making these offers out

952
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 3: there to say, like, guys, you know you can't low ball.

953
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 3: It's okay, We're expecting much more in return if you

954
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 3: want to trade for Ben Simmons. So these are the

955
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 3: ones we're just dismissing right now. But there's certainly a

956
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 3: lot of interest from teams. But yeah, I think I

957
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 3: think teams are just sort of seeing the Sixers and

958
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 3: just like I think Ben Simmons can be had for

959
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 3: a little bit cheaper than perhaps, you know, during the

960
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:55,839
Speaker 3: regular season if he's been playing well.

961
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,280
Speaker 4: But I think the Sixer should move on anyway.

962
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 2: So yeah, I still think he will be traded. I

963
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 2: don't think it'll be these It's not gonna be the

964
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 2: sacer Medo because I'm with you guys like Harrison Barnes

965
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 2: Bagley in the number nine pick or Buddy Heel Bagley

966
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 2: in the number nine pick, that that's the that's too low,

967
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 2: even for Ben Simmons, whose trade value is sort of

968
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:13,439
Speaker 2: near the floor.

969
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: That's a bag of beans with the bag of beans

970
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: brought in.

971
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. I still think it's gonna happen with Minnesota, obviously,

972
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 2: was saying that sort of from the jump when it

973
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 2: came to Ben Simmons trade rooms. I think there's something

974
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 2: there with a D'Angelo Russell and even a Beasley going

975
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 2: to Philadelphia and probably some picks for Ben Simmons, whatever

976
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 2: else it takes to make it happen. Be at George Hill.

977
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:36,240
Speaker 2: I love the I like the concept of Ben Simmons

978
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 2: in Minnesota with Karl Anthony Towns too, But maybe that's

979
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 2: still not enough. If they're not interested in brog did

980
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 2: the Sixers? You know, are they then that interested in

981
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 2: D'Angelo Russell? Probably not, Yeah, I think yeah, you would

982
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 2: think so, you would think so. But again, these are

983
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 2: all just reports and they're trying to drive up the

984
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 2: you know, the price from these other teams, and suddenly

985
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 2: the Blazers are like, oh, well, okay, well here's McCollum

986
00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:02,399
Speaker 2: and so and so, here's whatever, so we will see,

987
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 2: all right our next headline hurts my heart, But congratulations

988
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 2: to these four countries NBA dot Com coming through with Slovenia, Germany,

989
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 2: Italy and the Czech Republic securing the final four Olympic spots.

990
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,840
Speaker 2: And I say it hurts my heart because on Saturday,

991
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 2: oh boy, team Canada losing to the Czech Republic, tough loss,

992
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:30,280
Speaker 2: got their asses outplayed, like got outplayed, made a crazy comeback,

993
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 2: like an insane comeback. They're down six with like twenty

994
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 2: seconds to go at the end of regulation, and then

995
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 2: Andrew Wiggins just went nuts and there was crazy steel

996
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 2: and all this. But in the end, Saturanski hitting a

997
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 2: fading off the glass jumper over Dort of all people,

998
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 2: one of the best defensive players probably in the game,

999
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 2: and you got it to go, you know, a little

1000
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 2: luck involved, no doubt, but it drops. And then Trey

1001
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 2: Lyles had a chance at a baseline jumper, beautiful play

1002
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,959
Speaker 2: call from Nick Nurse and it rims in and out

1003
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:03,840
Speaker 2: and team Canada loses and Czech Republic goes on to

1004
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 2: be grease Tasks, So you know, they played their way

1005
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 2: there obviously, and surprise a lot of people. A lot

1006
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 2: of these teams. Germany is surprising a lot of people.

1007
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 2: So in the end, Luca's there, which is great, They're pumped,

1008
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:15,359
Speaker 2: but these other teams were a bit of a shock

1009
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 2: to some people.

1010
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Luka Doncic got the MVP award in his

1011
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 5: tournament from r Vetas Sabonis from the original handed it

1012
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 5: out and that must have hurt his son, Demanta Sabonis,

1013
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 5: who just lost. Yeah, and I guess they had this planned.

1014
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 5: Are you just going to give it to anybody? But

1015
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 5: then after Lithuania loss, I mean, this must have this

1016
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,360
Speaker 5: must have been really difficult for Domas to watch this happen,

1017
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 5: But it's exciting for just Yeah, we're gonna see Luca.

1018
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 5: I am still going to be watching every minute of

1019
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 5: the Olympics, even though it's lacking both Greeks and Canadians

1020
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 5: at basketball. Maybe I'll tune into Jan Shulman's call on

1021
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 5: the Canadian broadcast because I always love me some Dan

1022
00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 5: Shulman dating back to the Jay's days. So yeah, that's

1023
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 5: it's it's unfortunate.

1024
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:02,840
Speaker 2: It was a brutal loss.

1025
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 5: Both well both losses. I think I would rather, if

1026
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 5: I was so grease, beat Turkey on Saturday to get

1027
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 5: to the final, to get ropped by the Czech Republic. Man,

1028
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:13,879
Speaker 5: they've played some good team ball. I think I would

1029
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,879
Speaker 5: have rather just lost in the semi finals and got

1030
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 5: it over. Well.

1031
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, it freed up my Sunday. That was nice. I

1032
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 2: didn't have to watch Canada play because this was it

1033
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 2: was a frustrating watch. They got they got, they got

1034
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 2: out played for like, well it's a forty minute game

1035
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,439
Speaker 2: there in the FOEBA rules, but for like a good

1036
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 2: thirty seven minutes they were outplayed and then again they

1037
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 2: rallied to get it into overtime. Trey, I want to know,

1038
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 2: did you have a good Saturday yourself, because Trey Awles

1039
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 2: misses an awesome look again at the buzzard in overtime

1040
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:44,280
Speaker 2: to tie it up or send it to double overtime.

1041
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 2: It just it rimmed in and out. You know, it

1042
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 2: was a great play, like I said, and he missed it.

1043
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 2: Then Ice Tray down at the Fortress I watched in person.

1044
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 2: You know, he struggled mainly because of the injury and

1045
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 2: didn't have a great game. Six in louding to the Bucks,

1046
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:57,600
Speaker 2: did you have a good Saturday at least because all

1047
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 2: these other trades I know were not. I think you

1048
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 2: were moving, So how does that go?

1049
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 1: I was moving? Luckily for us, they did finish the

1050
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:12,240
Speaker 1: painting on Saturday. I had an average Saturday. I wouldn't

1051
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 1: say I had a great Saturday. I was feeling sad

1052
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: for you, Skeets. I know how excited you were for

1053
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: Team Canada to maybe actually make the Olympics, with you

1054
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: being an adult for the first time. That would have

1055
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 1: been very cool for you. But obviously Nick Nurse just

1056
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,760
Speaker 1: can't beat Thomas saturnski four and o this year against

1057
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:28,319
Speaker 1: Nick Nurse.

1058
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 2: I mean, if you just go watch the shot, he

1059
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 2: hits two over to shot shot.

1060
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 1: That's one of the ones where you're like, playing on

1061
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: a Wednesday, You're like, well, at least we got another

1062
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: game coming up, but that's going to be the winner here.

1063
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:47,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, Wiggans, correct me, I can't remember.

1064
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 4: It's off a mis free throw.

1065
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 3: Well, they stole the inbounds get yeah, that's right, Yeah,

1066
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,879
Speaker 3: they stole it. And then he fought up that one

1067
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 3: contested three knocked it in. It sort of felt maybe

1068
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 3: Wiggins is just going to become the Canadian hero. But man,

1069
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 3: that that one then for Setaranski just to get it

1070
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 3: in because the team kind of was leading in overtime too.

1071
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were up be fo think they scored the

1072
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 2: first two yeah, four, five, yeah, and then didn't score

1073
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 2: the rest of the way.

1074
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 4: Out yeah man, man, and.

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00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 2: People were upset that it wasn't going through Wiggins. Actually

1076
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 2: enough who had caught fire at the end of regulation

1077
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 2: scored once in overtime, but they were like, there was

1078
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:23,319
Speaker 2: not They were not definitely like feeding him the ball

1079
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 2: and maybe should have because he was he was on

1080
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 2: and he was like just roll with your best guy

1081
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 2: in that particular game. But whatever, Again, Czech Republic outplayed him.

1082
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 2: They didn't even deserve to be in overtime for being honest.

1083
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 2: U tough, tough loss, and it sucks me for this

1084
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 2: obviously for the program. That's you know, I talked about

1085
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 2: them wanting like to get there and that does instill

1086
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 2: some confidence in the program and get some of these

1087
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 2: other guys to want to play. Maybe the future still

1088
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 2: looks bright for Team Canada, but they you know, you know, yeah,

1089
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray, Yad Jay Gildess, Yeah, Dylan Brooks, like they're

1090
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 2: all fairly young too. To some of these other guys

1091
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:56,280
Speaker 2: that played RJ played pretty well in this little mini tournament.

1092
00:48:56,280 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 2: Wiggins actually played great, but still still they could have

1093
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 2: used like a could have used some BIG's actually trey

1094
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:04,840
Speaker 2: like Ken Burch or Kelly Lennok and those were like

1095
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:06,320
Speaker 2: contract reasons that they were playing.

1096
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 1: Oh anyway, so this is the most down you've been

1097
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 1: about Team Canada because to me, I mean, looking from

1098
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 1: the outside, it feels a little bit like Team USA

1099
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 1: two thousand and four, where you're like, the future looks bright.

1100
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,399
Speaker 1: We've got a ton of talent, but they never play

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00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: together and they don't seem to fit perfectly.

1102
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 4: Yeah.

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00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm down because they should have won

1104
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 2: this little mini tournament to get in. Yeah, I mean,

1105
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 2: they should beat the Czech Republic. They should. They have

1106
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 2: eight NBA players on their roster. Yeah, they're missing some

1107
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 2: big names still, but they couldn't hit a three to

1108
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 2: save their life, and it got killed inside because they

1109
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 2: didn't have a lot of size. I forget that guy's

1110
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,319
Speaker 2: name on the Czech Republic. He destroyed them. He's like,

1111
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:40,320
Speaker 2: thirty one points this guy because he's a big dude

1112
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 2: and they wisely ran through ran their stuff through him.

1113
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:46,839
Speaker 2: But AnyWho, it opened up my sunday. That was nice

1114
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 2: TASKI right, if you're gonna lose losing the semis, that's

1115
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 2: the lesson learned. Okay, let's get to tweet of the night.

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Speaker 5: Threed o the night.

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00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 2: Wow, Oh, tweet of the night. That's a fun one

1118
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 2: from kofe at kofe on Twitter. This one was making

1119
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 2: the rounds, very very funny tweet. AAU basketball was wild. Man.

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Speaker 2: You could beat a team by ten eat Wendy's and

1121
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 2: be matched up with future NBA superstars forty five minutes

1122
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:22,879
Speaker 2: later and leave the tournament questioning if you love basketball?

1123
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 2: A great tweet. Kofe is an awesome a twitch follow

1124
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 2: by the way watch them game and stuff like that

1125
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 2: and does like some fun like trivia questions and stuff.

1126
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:34,959
Speaker 2: The responsesly were hilarious, like the threat is great because

1127
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 2: people are basically just sharing their AAU basketball stories of

1128
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 2: like oh yeah this time, you know we just got

1129
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 2: hammered by this future NBA player. This one yeah at

1130
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 2: Chad bro I saw we thought we were cute until

1131
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 2: the two thousand and three Atlanta Celtics rolled up with

1132
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:54,919
Speaker 2: Dwight Howard and Josh Smith. They mercy ruled us by

1133
00:50:54,960 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 2: breaking the rim clean off the backboard, right. I like

1134
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 2: this one from at at a Hoffener. My AAU team

1135
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 2: played the Southern California All Stars with Kevin Love and

1136
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 2: Brandon Jennings. Jennings drippled through the legs on seven out

1137
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 2: of the ten guys on our team, and I Love

1138
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 2: drum stepped me so hard I would flag eight feet

1139
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 2: out of bounds. Anyway, there's a million of these responses

1140
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:25,760
Speaker 2: and trade did you ever like, you know, we're Canadian

1141
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 2: and Australians, we're obviously playing here in the States and

1142
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,279
Speaker 2: basketball what any means? But did you ever anything like

1143
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,799
Speaker 2: something similar in Illinois where you're like you ran into

1144
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 2: a juggernaut of a team or a player.

1145
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:37,280
Speaker 1: Even Sean Livingston is the best guy I played against

1146
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 1: in high school. He was a freshman when we were

1147
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: a senior, and I mean Sean Livingston was a lottery

1148
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 1: pick by the time he was a senior in high school,

1149
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 1: and he just destroyed us. I wouldn't say he was

1150
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: the best athlete I ever played against, though, there was

1151
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,360
Speaker 1: a guy from another local high school who ended up

1152
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:53,960
Speaker 1: playing free safety in the NFL for ten years. His

1153
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 1: name was Sean Considine. He was incredible. I mean, he

1154
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: was an NFL level athlete playing against me. Boy, yeah, exactly,

1155
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 1: exactly right. And then the best guy in the state

1156
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 1: my senior year of high school was an incredible name

1157
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:12,800
Speaker 1: Pierre Pierce. He was like, I think he averaged forty

1158
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 1: a game through the state high school tournament. He was

1159
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: a local guy. We ended up having to play him

1160
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 1: in a summer tournament once and he just embarrassed us.

1161
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: The guy was like he ended up playing at University

1162
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:25,879
Speaker 1: of Iowa, I think, where he was like twenty five

1163
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: a game, and it was just insane. The like the

1164
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: nonchalantness with which he was able to destroy a bunch

1165
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 1: of farmers out here, hilarious, hilarious stuff. I ended up

1166
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 1: playing him in like another men's league, like ten years

1167
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,760
Speaker 1: down the line. He had just come off of leading

1168
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors summer league team and scoring for

1169
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 1: a summer. The man had like massive off court problems,

1170
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:51,400
Speaker 1: like never made it to the NBA because of that,

1171
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 1: but he was a bucket every single time I happened

1172
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,720
Speaker 1: to be in the gym with him destroying us, just destroy,

1173
00:52:57,760 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: I guess. And that's when you like when you see

1174
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 1: the levels of basketball out there, because Kofe's right, Like

1175
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 1: going to a day long tournament is awesome because you'll

1176
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: have a great game and then you'll just eat fast

1177
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: food for a couple hours, and then you'll go get destroyed,

1178
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 1: and then you drive home with your buddies. I'm still

1179
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 1: pissed at nisaiel Valaz for dropping my twenty dollars bill

1180
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: outside of the car while we're on the freeway. Come on,

1181
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: and twenty dollars in high school? What are you doing?

1182
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: I was gonna buy some chicken fingers with Ronnie Stickney

1183
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: at a and w root beer. But nothing. You think

1184
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna turn around for twenty bucks? Come on, buddy.

1185
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 1: Fun times like you go and drive two hours to

1186
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: play for two hours, sit for two hours, play for

1187
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 1: another two hours, and then drive two hours by so

1188
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:40,440
Speaker 1: weird fun.

1189
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 2: Time, Yeah, and then usually play a team where I'm

1190
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 2: the only what I remember, I don't remember their names,

1191
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 2: but I just remember the level, like jumped up another notch,

1192
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 2: like we're obviously in Stratford Ontario. We're playing all the

1193
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 2: other high schools. We're fine, We're decent. We go to

1194
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 2: this tournament for the weekend and you know, we hung

1195
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 2: in a couple of games. I'm not sure if we

1196
00:53:58,120 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 2: even won, but we were in them. And then yeah,

1197
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 2: we got against this juggernaut team that had two their

1198
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 2: twin brothers. It was like Brook and Robin Lopez, two

1199
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 2: giant twin brothers that were then just dunking on everyone.

1200
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 2: Like that wasn't happening in our league. You guys were

1201
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 2: not getting dunk time. Dond Is like twenty times in

1202
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 2: the game, and it's just like, what the hell is

1203
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 2: going on here? So that's why this tweet resonated with me.

1204
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 2: But anything similar there in Australia.

1205
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:24,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we used to play in tournament weekend tournaments

1206
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 3: like that. Mainly I guess we did it when we

1207
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,720
Speaker 3: were kids, but then when we were like adults, young adults,

1208
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:31,800
Speaker 3: as eighteen year olds, we would also enter tournaments.

1209
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 4: And you would do is just do the same thing.

1210
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 3: Go for the weekend, have a boozy Friday and Saturday

1211
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 3: night and play like five games. And there was one

1212
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:40,399
Speaker 3: time we were playing and the Melbourne Tigers who played

1213
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:42,680
Speaker 3: in the NBL. That's Andrew Gazes's team. They had a

1214
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 3: team they entered, but it was like their sort of

1215
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 3: younger up and coming players who they wanted to play against,

1216
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 3: you know, men. And I remember this sixteen year old

1217
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:53,759
Speaker 3: kid like the game, like was a minute in and

1218
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 3: the shot went up and I was sort of boxing

1219
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 3: out and I turned around and all of a sudden,

1220
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:00,439
Speaker 3: I just felt like his legs and his feet head

1221
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 3: just this kid just dunked on me like that, and

1222
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 3: I was just like, oh my god, and we just

1223
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:09,279
Speaker 3: got completely destroyed.

1224
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 4: By this team.

1225
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 3: But that same guy who dunked on me, as I

1226
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:14,560
Speaker 3: was dribbling up the court at one point, he was

1227
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:16,560
Speaker 3: putting pressure on me, and I bounced it under his

1228
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 3: legs and went and got it. And he was furious

1229
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 3: because I just I humiliated him, even though they were

1230
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:25,919
Speaker 3: beating us by about sixty five points to that point,

1231
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 3: so I got mine little back on him. But I

1232
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:30,560
Speaker 3: think as well, in that tournament that was there was

1233
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 3: the one team that was just so much better than

1234
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 3: everyone else. I think we actually played them again in

1235
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 3: the final because we beat all the other teams. But

1236
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 3: then you know, the final was like one hundred and

1237
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 3: forty six to like twenty or something like that. I mean,

1238
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 3: we just got just destroyed. So but they were always fun.

1239
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:47,800
Speaker 3: The tournaments were great fun when you were kids and stuff.

1240
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:49,879
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think we ever won one, though

1241
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 3: I would have loved to have gotten at least just

1242
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 3: one trophy. But there's always one team better than you.

1243
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 1: It just sucked.

1244
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:57,440
Speaker 2: I'll go seeking with this tweet again from Coffee, just

1245
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:00,080
Speaker 2: to read the thread because or the responses there. So

1246
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 2: there's so many that just are great stories and people

1247
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 2: just dropping like again, future NBA players and like magic

1248
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 2: having to play them when you're like sixteen, seventeen, eighteen

1249
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:10,839
Speaker 2: or whatever age you are. Oh my god, so so good.

1250
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 2: All right, we'll call it there. We'll be back tomorrow. Obviously,

1251
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 2: no game on tonight, That's okay. I'm sure we'll have

1252
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 2: some more news and we'll make some Game one predictions

1253
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:21,279
Speaker 2: on tomorrow's show. But get your questions in, keep in

1254
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 2: comming No Dunks at the Athletic dot Com help us out.

1255
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 2: Might need to, you know, answer a few questions on

1256
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 2: tomorrows show, so send those in and make sure you

1257
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:31,760
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Speaker 2: subscription too. Go to the Athletic dot Com slash no

1259
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:37,200
Speaker 2: dunks if you haven't already. There's a great I believe

1260
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:40,279
Speaker 2: there's like a July fourth sort of Independence Day deal

1261
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 2: going on, or maybe it was already over. I'm never

1262
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 2: sure with these, so anyway, it's cheap regardless. Go to

1263
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 2: the Athletic dot Com slash no dunks get yourself an

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Speaker 2: athletic subscription. Clipper Bros. You heard it here first, have

1265
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 2: a great time, turn up, love you guys, awesome, thanks.

1266
00:56:56,320 --> 00:56:59,479
Speaker 5: For joining us, and just gonna answer this question before

1267
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:01,720
Speaker 5: we go from Kiki and the Stream team. Is Anthony

1268
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 5: Bettett on Team Canada?

1269
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:04,399
Speaker 4: Yep?

1270
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:10,600
Speaker 5: He was? He was? Yeah, no, wow, nobody including Anthony

1271
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:13,319
Speaker 5: Bettt could help the team get a w though.

1272
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 3: So sad, just so sad. Look at all that talent.

1273
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 2: All right, that's all right, they're all young. You just

1274
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 2: wait until what Paris? Where are we going next? Paris four? Oh,

1275
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 2: it'll be worth it, hopefully. Embrace the vie.

1276
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 4: You could say.

1277
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 5: Every day, my dad be happy, every minute.

1278
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 2: It's been so long with your wanna.

1279
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 5: Wait, he's happened already.

1280
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 2: He's gonna be grevy