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Speaker 1: fifteenth consecutive and last late night show. Here here to

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Speaker 1: recap the big NBA games and news from Thursday, August

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Speaker 1: ski Is fired up and joining us tonight. As always,

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Speaker 1: we got Tass.

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Speaker 2: Mellis honestly, NBA, what a job, What a job. That

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Speaker 2: felt great to watch that game.

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Speaker 1: Right now, we've got the Bearded One, Trey Kirby, Hey

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Speaker 1: out hey, the international man of mystery, taking it to

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Speaker 1: the max, Lee Ellis friends, Last but not least, making

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Speaker 1: the magic happen tonight.

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Speaker 3: JD.

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Speaker 1: Hello, there he is, and here we are. The megable

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Speaker 1: is officially set. Blazers Grizzlies Game one goes down Saturday

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Speaker 1: at two thirty pm Eastern on ABC. Wow, you're right, task,

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Speaker 1: It's like it's scripted.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: The games we got today. Two weeks plus into the

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Speaker 1: bubble seating games, and we were still getting some beauties.

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Speaker 1: The poor Suns will get to them in their game

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Speaker 1: and they're season down here their little mini season, the

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Speaker 1: bubble season, going eight to zero and still coming up short.

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Speaker 1: But the Blazers defeat the Nets the one we just watched.

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Speaker 1: It just wrapped up one thirty four to one thirty three.

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Speaker 1: I know you're thinking skeets triple overtime, that's awesome. Nope,

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Speaker 1: just forty eight minutes of basketball, not a lot of defense,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter if Blazers pulled it out. Lillard

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Speaker 1: did his thing, and Kris Lavert at the buzzer tasks, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, the greatest look a little off balance, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a jumper. He wasn't attacking the rim, had been

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Speaker 1: all a game, but it misses. Blazers get the rebound

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Speaker 1: and the W and they're the eight seed. What did

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Speaker 1: you think of that shot in this game?

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it looked like that fourth quarter was just

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Speaker 2: everybody was just jumping up, letting it rip, and it

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Speaker 2: was going down and it was phenomenal from Dame Steele

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Speaker 2: where he kind of lulled Caris Lavert to sleep and

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Speaker 2: the ball just kind of came loose after a tiny bump.

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Speaker 2: It just seemed like this was the Blazer's night. But

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Speaker 2: then Karris Lavert the play before he misses. It takes

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Speaker 2: Gary Trent to absolute school drives in Gary Trent was

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Speaker 2: just feet behind him. There was no you can measure

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Speaker 2: in centimeters, you can measure in inches. He was multiple

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Speaker 2: feet behind him. Mellow misses on the other end. Then

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Speaker 2: this is Karris Levert's game one on five. He waits

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Speaker 2: and waits and waits till the clock ticks down. But

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Speaker 2: I was okay watching it because it seems like against

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Speaker 2: his Blazers defense, he could get to wherever he wants

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Speaker 2: and then to pull up against CJ McCollum, who a

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Speaker 2: better defender than and Gary Trent Junior. But it was

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Speaker 2: just arms flailing at karrosl I've heard. I mean he

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Speaker 2: middle of the lane because I don't think he would

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Speaker 2: have been impeded by Yusuf Nurkic. And so I was

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Speaker 2: really surprised when that ball rimmed out, Just shocked the

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Speaker 2: way he was able to hit shots tonight. A fantastic

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, I mean Lillard and the Blazers, they had

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Speaker 1: twelve minutes there to save their season. They were entering

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. I think it was down seven. Lee,

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Speaker 1: your buttthole must have been tight, because you were on

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Speaker 1: here the other night saying the Nets, I gotta beat

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Speaker 1: the Blazers. Who fools? So that was a wrap for sure.

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Speaker 1: You know they're gonna win, so they're in. You're ultimately right,

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Speaker 1: But my god, the Nets put up a fight and

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Speaker 1: it got very very close, basically as close as you

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, when's lild Is pulling out from the logo

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Speaker 4: going crazy himself down in those last few minutes because

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Speaker 4: I couldn't got a rebound. Every time Brooklyn missed the shot,

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Speaker 4: the ball went back to them in some way. And really,

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Speaker 4: the Blazers are pretty lucky that the that the Nets

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Speaker 4: doing everything. He came diving on the ball getting that

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Speaker 4: because if Dame, if he gets off the court and

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Speaker 4: they lose this game, after everything, everything he's done in

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Speaker 4: justified in doing so because he was doing everything out there,

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Speaker 4: putting it all on the line, hitting those shots. And

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Speaker 4: you could see a couple of times I think when

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Speaker 4: he came over halfway. The nets were picking him up

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Speaker 4: as soon as he came over halfway, and Dame was

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Speaker 4: kind of like, well, I really should pass it here,

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Speaker 4: because he just had the only really only had confidence

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Speaker 4: because he looked gassed at the end.

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Speaker 1: But Lillard's big dude. You know, he's not stopping a

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Speaker 1: you know, forty minutes or so whatever. He played it

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Speaker 1: this game. You're right, he was. He was, Yeah, nothing

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Speaker 1: left in him. It wasn't a lot to begin defensively

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Speaker 1: did hit a he hit he missed a couple, but

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Speaker 1: he hit one big one there too. He always hits

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Speaker 1: shoot it. And he had one of those. And McCollum

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Speaker 1: had a really good overall game. And then the little

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Speaker 1: LeVert into a jump shot there instead of having him drive. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he's playing with a fractured you know back. He's

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Speaker 1: got a pretty severe injury. That explains why I was

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Speaker 1: McCollum hit the ground there for a very key loose ball.

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Speaker 1: some playing through some pain. But yeah, you're right about Lillard.

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Speaker 1: I mean if they had lost this, wow, I mean yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think he would have. He would have been like,

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Speaker 1: you know, this is on me. I feel like he

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Speaker 1: have been lying through his teeth if he had said that,

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Speaker 1: because not much else he could do offensively right Trey.

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Speaker 3: I loved what he said post game he was asked

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Speaker 3: I saw they were doubling me, but I didn't want

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Speaker 3: with you know, I mean, that's a huge logo they've

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Speaker 3: inside the logo. That was amazing. That was worth yelling about.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I think the Blazer's logo is bigger

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Speaker 2: though even it's like wider. That was close to the

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Speaker 3: No doubt that was amazing. But like you guys are saying,

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Speaker 3: it felt like highlight for the Blazers and then an

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Speaker 3: immediate basket on the other end for the nets, with

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Speaker 3: just an easy little layup, and then a highlight for

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Speaker 3: net for the nets. And that's why I was a

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Speaker 3: little shocking to see Lavert take so much time at

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Speaker 3: the end there before actually settling for an outside jumper.

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Speaker 3: If he goes to the rim, he'd been at the

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Speaker 3: the rim, they were tipping the ball back out. You

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Speaker 3: get another chance at it. But I don't know. I

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Speaker 3: was happy to see the Blazers actually be able to

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Speaker 3: pull it out. It was cool that it came down

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Speaker 3: to be a one point game. Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 3: It's like the fact that the playing game between the

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Speaker 3: into overtime. These games are just destined to be perfect.

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Speaker 3: Then Nets could have mailed it in, but they didn't,

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Speaker 3: and it was awesome. That was a great game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if Raptors fans are watching this game,

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna be a kkewalk. I'm sorry, it's not.

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Speaker 1: The Nets are scrappy. They've got guys that can hit shots.

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Speaker 1: Karaslo Vert when the ball is in his hands is

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Speaker 1: their star player. He could be trouble. Now, the Raptors

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Speaker 1: actually played defense and that will help. But you know, again, Tess,

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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but Raptors are going to

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Speaker 1: be a sweep, and nor do I think it's going

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Speaker 1: to be very easy. And that's fine, that's again. I've

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Speaker 1: said it a million times. You want a bit of

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Speaker 1: a challenge, if you have title aspirations, maybe that's good.

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Speaker 1: But I'm just like, hats off to Jacquvaughan and those guys,

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Speaker 1: like Tray said, all those guys like they're playing for nothing.

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Speaker 1: There's a seventh seed. You know, they've been gone from

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Speaker 1: their families for a long time. They're in this weird

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Speaker 1: bubble environment. Easily could have mailed this one in easily

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Speaker 1: with some of us thought they would, right, You didn't

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Speaker 4: Minutes to night, Yeah, I mean, I mean yeah. Just

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Speaker 4: going back to Lavert there for a sec I felt

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Speaker 4: getting devoured by him. But who else could he have

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Speaker 4: put on it? He wasn't gonna put Dame on him.

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Speaker 4: Dane was doing too much, see Johns, I know That's

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Speaker 4: what I mean. So like Lavert just going in there,

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Speaker 4: It's crazy to me. A team when they're trailing runs

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Speaker 4: the clock out. You've got to get your shut up

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Speaker 4: way quicker than that. If if if you score and

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Speaker 4: then Lily HiT's a bomb at the buzzer to beat you, like,

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Speaker 4: hats off to him, but you want to have that

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Speaker 4: lead rather than playing from behind. Because in the case

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Speaker 4: where Lavert takes that bad shot, and that it was

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Speaker 4: a bad shot too late in the clock as well,

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Speaker 4: there was no time for them to get a second

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Speaker 4: look or to get an offensive rebound. So I think

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Speaker 4: that's bad clock management. But it's it's that's you know,

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Speaker 4: you you learn from that, I expect. But when you're

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Speaker 4: that's a hit and that's that's the wrong mentality to

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Speaker 4: take in. Then you got to get you shot up

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Speaker 4: white quicker than that. But you know, he had a

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Speaker 4: great game otherwise, Lavert, and you know he deserved to

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Speaker 4: take the last shot. But I just thought that was

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Speaker 4: that was a bad one.

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Speaker 2: Do you think the NBA would notice if the Blazers

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Speaker 2: brought in Trevor Resa like tomorrow and and just started

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Speaker 2: quarantining him like he is on the roster.

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Speaker 1: I know, could they legally do it.

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Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think so, unless he's like

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Speaker 2: you said, Skeets, I'm looking forward to our Eastern Conference

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Speaker 2: still not changing my prediction. No way, no way, first

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Speaker 1: Baby, I I don't think so save it. They'll save it.

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Speaker 3: Skeets. You want to parlay a bet here, Harris LeVert

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Speaker 1: See that's a that's a way to throw that out there.

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Speaker 4: You can retro market pitch.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's also a concern with Lavert, to be honest,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Remember we were like throwing out like hypothetical trades

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Speaker 3: Sure, JD.

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Speaker 1: now what do you think Dame did?

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Speaker 5: Like, I don't know, his closet and dresser were full

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Speaker 5: he's he bet on himself. You could tell you so, yeah,

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Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, he did not pack. It just seems

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Speaker 3: Who knows?

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Speaker 1: I wish. I wish Chris Haynes had asked him that question.

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Speaker 1: You know, one more question? Did you pack your bag?

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Speaker 3: It definitely seemed like he didn't want to go home

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jeff, Jeff, Kevin Harlan, Kevin Harlan. I I'd like

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Speaker 2: too many people care about the Bubble MVP, but he

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Speaker 1: Did he wrap it up by getting his team into

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Speaker 2: Well, because the Suns did go eight to no.

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Speaker 1: I do think Lillard won it if he hadn't already

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Speaker 2: then they're gonna have a good game. And he just

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00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:41,480
Speaker 2: he's somehow found it. He was flicking them up and

429
00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:44,440
Speaker 2: they were going down, and he has a thirty point game.

430
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Speaker 2: There's no way they're losing that game.

431
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he started on fire and he kept it going.

432
00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,800
Speaker 1: You're right, So Grizzlies versus the Blazers, what'd you think

433
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Speaker 1: of the Grizzlies today? Lee? Did you like what you saw?

434
00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,639
Speaker 4: Well that? I mean, this was like if they couldn't

435
00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:58,720
Speaker 4: win this game, then they didn't deserve to be in

436
00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,480
Speaker 4: the bubble. I mean the Bucks clearly when Bud basically

437
00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:04,000
Speaker 4: sat everyone down and just said.

438
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Speaker 1: Do you think Bud did Taylor Jenkins a favor?

439
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Speaker 4: I think it'd helped that they have a prior history. Sure, sure,

440
00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:11,760
Speaker 4: I mean why not, Like he's not going to just

441
00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,160
Speaker 4: completely mail it in, But at the same time he's

442
00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,000
Speaker 4: happy to help out his friend. I think, so, you know,

443
00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,320
Speaker 4: nothing wrong with that that sort of stuff, But Dylan Brooks.

444
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Speaker 4: He has kind of got it going a little bit

445
00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:24,840
Speaker 4: in those last three or four games, which if the

446
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Speaker 4: Grizzlies have any hope against the Blazers and then potentially

447
00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,879
Speaker 4: further on, he has to be somewhat of a reliable scorer.

448
00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,080
Speaker 4: He's hit twenty and four of his last five, including

449
00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:35,719
Speaker 4: thirty one today, because he started off pretty bad, shooting

450
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Speaker 4: the ball badly and not scoring all that much. So

451
00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,400
Speaker 4: his shooting has improved. It's still not great, but clearly,

452
00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,720
Speaker 4: you know, Ja Morant is going to do the bulk

453
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Speaker 4: of the scoring, I would think, but Brooks has to

454
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Speaker 4: be able to give them twenty five a night, I

455
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,480
Speaker 4: think from here on out if they're going to have

456
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Speaker 4: any chance of just you know, obviously beating the Blazers

457
00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,600
Speaker 4: first and then against the Lakers so encouraging signs that

458
00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:57,680
Speaker 4: maybe he's just, you know, he just had a little

459
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Speaker 4: bit of rust and now he's starting to shake it off.

460
00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:02,960
Speaker 4: But without Jaron Jackson, it's going to be tough for

461
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,080
Speaker 4: the Grizzlies, I think. I mean, yeah, Valentiunis was good today,

462
00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:07,360
Speaker 4: but yeah.

463
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Speaker 1: He I'm excited for Valentotis versus nerkh Yeah. Wow, bodies did.

464
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Speaker 4: You see him spin on brook Lopez today? Like the

465
00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:19,000
Speaker 4: slowest sort of fight away of all time? So yeah,

466
00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:20,679
Speaker 4: good on the Grizzly, good on him. I mean we

467
00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,639
Speaker 4: all well not always picked against him, but it looked

468
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:25,360
Speaker 4: like the Bucks. If the Bucks had sort of put

469
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Speaker 4: in maybe seventy five to eighty percent today, I think

470
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,560
Speaker 4: would have won that game. But they didn't, so they

471
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Speaker 4: lived to fight the grizz.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if Jannis doesn't head bump, slash, head butt

473
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 1: Mo Wagner and he plays in this but limited minutes,

474
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Speaker 1: Let's say, like you know, they give him a good

475
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Speaker 1: twenty to twenty five minutes, is that still enough just

476
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Speaker 1: Yiannis being in there to maybe take the Bucks to victory.

477
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,320
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I'm not sure.

478
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Speaker 3: Sure helps talking about the head butterfly of fact, I

479
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 3: think yes, yes, yes, exactly what did you did you

480
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Speaker 3: take away anything from this game?

481
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Speaker 1: Tray or if you will want to get into it

482
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Speaker 1: a little bit. Do the Grizzlies have a chance against

483
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Speaker 1: the Blazers?

484
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 3: You would think they have more of a chance after

485
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Speaker 3: watching today, just the fact that they got eleven threes

486
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Speaker 3: from their starting lineup, like that's huge, Like Tassa say,

487
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Speaker 3: and you're not expecting a lot of offense out of

488
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 3: Kyle Anderson or Anthony Tolliver. The thing you hope happens

489
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Speaker 3: is that they hit threes, and today they did. Same

490
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Speaker 3: with Dylan Brooks. If he's hitting shots, they've got a

491
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Speaker 3: higher chance of putting some points on the board. And

492
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Speaker 3: that's gonna be key against the Blazers because you know

493
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 3: they're gonna score. You know you're gonna have to have shots.

494
00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 3: You gotta make them, so a little bit more encouraging.

495
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Speaker 3: You'd rather be on a hot streak going into a

496
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Speaker 3: game that you have to win then the other way around.

497
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought Kyle Anderson did actually a pretty good

498
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Speaker 1: job on Middleton too. I know Chris just missed some

499
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Speaker 1: shots that he would normally make, but he's guy's long,

500
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Speaker 1: he's slow mo is. You know, for whatever reason, he

501
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 1: can he can stick with you. Just his his wingspan

502
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,240
Speaker 1: is insane for a guy his size. So I thought

503
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Speaker 1: he did a great job. Admamirble job on him. I saw.

504
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Speaker 1: I think it was Henry abbittt trueho tweet this too,

505
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Speaker 1: which is just a fastinating little wrinkle to this. You

506
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,400
Speaker 1: have to imagine that when you know the players Association

507
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 1: in the league, we're trying to figure out this bubble

508
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 1: guys like this idea of like, all right, here's what

509
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Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We're gonna play these eight games each

510
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:14,160
Speaker 1: and everybody's of course, like jock in for seeding and

511
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 1: you know, we'll get our eight teams in there. And

512
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 1: you and you have to assume the Grizzlies were like,

513
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on. We're up like three

514
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Speaker 1: and a half games, and the play or and then

515
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: the league's like, well, yeah, but we want to play

516
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Speaker 1: in you know, and they're like, well, well okay, you

517
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,160
Speaker 1: want to play in yeah, get it. You want drum

518
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,639
Speaker 1: up like, you know, support and gets maybe casual fans

519
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:37,960
Speaker 1: into it and the winner go home march madness vibe.

520
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: But we're the eight seeds, so you're gonna have to

521
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 1: beat us twice, you know what I mean. Like they

522
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,199
Speaker 1: must have been the one pushing for that, because the

523
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 1: league would probably want like a one game one and

524
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Speaker 1: you're in like, why wouldn't the league want that? That's

525
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 1: just awesome? And so now the Grizzlies in fighting for that.

526
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:55,679
Speaker 1: Now this is hypothetical, but I think it makes some

527
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Speaker 1: sense in fighting for that are now the ninth seed

528
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Speaker 1: and actually are now doing themselves a service by having

529
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Speaker 1: to win twice. I think there's probably some truth to that,

530
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,439
Speaker 1: because who else is asking for Well, hold on, if

531
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 1: the nine seed beats us and would then you know,

532
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 1: the eight seed gets another shot.

533
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:13,959
Speaker 2: I think, right, that's fair, that's fair. Now the Grizzlies

534
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 2: or the Blazer's got to go knock out Punch on Saturday,

535
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Speaker 2: and then that talk is done, Yes, no matter what.

536
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm with you, Yeah, that makes sense totally. Yeah,

537
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 2: who else? Who would want that? I I right, would

538
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Speaker 2: you want that? In the league office? Potential for just

539
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 2: two games? An extra game? Why the heck not? Just

540
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Speaker 2: to get some more ratings on a Sunday.

541
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Speaker 1: I guess maybe, But it feels like the league would

542
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 1: want they'd prefer like, oh, yeah, one game and you're in.

543
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,719
Speaker 1: It's that's awesome, that's huge. And then the Grizzlies are like, no,

544
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Speaker 1: that's not awesome because we're probably gonna be the eight

545
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 1: seeds and we are up enough that we have put

546
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Speaker 1: in the work to deserve like a bit more of

547
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,479
Speaker 1: a chance, and there's no home court advantage, so what

548
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:53,880
Speaker 1: the hell?

549
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah.

550
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 3: We definitely talked about that as an advantage for the

551
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 3: Grizzlies when it was announced. But it's kind of like

552
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 3: got classic parenting technique, right, Like you have one kid

553
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 3: choose the portions for the two kids, they're gonna choose

554
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,879
Speaker 3: a bigger portion for themselves, and then you give it

555
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 3: to the other kid and they're like, oh, that's why

556
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 3: you gotta be fair at all times. That's the lesson there.

557
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 3: If the Grizzlies would have just accepted it all they

558
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,440
Speaker 3: would have had to do get that one win.

559
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a kicker. Well, speaking of being fair, I

560
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 1: don't know what do you think of this? The Suns

561
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 1: they beat them Mats one, twenty eight, one oh two,

562
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: They hammered them. This was bat down. Sons stayed unbeaten

563
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,159
Speaker 1: in these seating games, the perfect eight to zero coming

564
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 1: through with one of my one of my better predictions

565
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:39,880
Speaker 1: of all time. I told everybody one team. I don't

566
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 1: know who it's gonna be, but at least one team's

567
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: gonna stay perfect, and it's less Sons. For crying out loud.

568
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,680
Speaker 1: They had a zero point two percent chance of making

569
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,959
Speaker 1: the playoffs before entering the bubble, and of course they

570
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,640
Speaker 1: come up short. No during no doing of their own,

571
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: not at least down here in Orlando. The rest of

572
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: the season. Yes, but you know you're seeing a lot

573
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 1: of people lee like, what hell, that ain't fair. They

574
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: weren't perfect, They couldn't do anything more you asked of them,

575
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 1: and they still don't get into this playing series, into

576
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 1: the Mega Ball. This is bogus, this is domb It

577
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense put him in. Where's your response to that?

578
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 4: No, bad luck to the Suns. I mean they were

579
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 4: too far back. Great on them to go down there

580
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 4: and go wait to know, but you can't just put

581
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 4: someone in because they had a great run and it's

582
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 4: a good story to put them in. I mean, they

583
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,640
Speaker 4: should have done the work throughout the season. So it's

584
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 4: been incredibly fun watching them. They've been a team that has,

585
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 4: you know, sort of maybe made a case that they

586
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 4: could be a legit team next year. I know it's

587
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:35,399
Speaker 4: a little bit hard to take out of this, but

588
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 4: they've got the pieces there and when they all come together,

589
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 4: maybe they're a chance. But you can't just have the

590
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 4: Cinderella feel and say wow, you did eight. No, so

591
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 4: you can go in at the expense of someone else.

592
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 4: I mean, that would be a little bit silly, but

593
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,120
Speaker 4: I'm happy for Monty Williams. Actually, it's good to see

594
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,640
Speaker 4: him there having some success because this franchise has been

595
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 4: a disaster for you know, like five to ten years

596
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 4: now really since Steve Nash left. They've been a disaster

597
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 4: and they've had a lot of coaches and now maybe

598
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 4: this is them turning the corner. But they've got plenty

599
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 4: to take away. Devin Booker said that after the game

600
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 4: as well, He's like, you know what, we've got plenty

601
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 4: to take out of this. They worked hard and they

602
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 4: had the right mindset, so you know, maybe he's maturing

603
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 4: into a star. Whether him and Aton can become a

604
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,399
Speaker 4: one to two combo, then great, You've got two pieces

605
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 4: of the puzzle there. You just need to surround it

606
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 4: with some other quality pieces. And it looks like they have.

607
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 4: You know, Cameron Johnson looks like he could be a

608
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 4: decent player there.

609
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: Oh, Bridges and Cam Johnson look like in theory the

610
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 1: prototype three and D type guys that you would want

611
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: around a superstar like Booker. Yeah, and then big Leg

612
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: Eaton I think does that checks out. I mean it's

613
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 1: still of course very early, and I think even Shack

614
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: on the broadcast and it was like, this is a

615
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 1: feel good story, it's awesome to eat. No, but this

616
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 1: is weird. Let's see them do it in a regular

617
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 1: season where there's travel and it's just more normal and

618
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 1: all that. He's got a point, but you're a lot

619
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: more excited about their chances, led by Monty Williams and

620
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: what they've done here and maybe the maturation of Devin

621
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 1: Booker that it's okay to get excited. It's okay right now.

622
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: I mean I threw up people like I threw up

623
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 1: the poll. How many games will they win?

624
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 3: Next year?

625
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 1: What do you think?

626
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 4: What did you put in the polygro I think I said.

627
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: I just said, like, if it's a let's pretend it's

628
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 1: a full eighty two game schedule, which it probably won't be.

629
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 1: Let's just pretend, though, I mean, are you going fifteen

630
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: to twenty five, twenty six to like, you know, thirty five,

631
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: you know, thirty six to forty five? Like where do

632
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 1: you put them more more than that?

633
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 4: Probably that second bracket I think. Still, I mean it's

634
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 4: it's does.

635
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: You don't see the Suns winning forty games? Still?

636
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, what do they win this year

637
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 4: in the n thirty four with a great run there,

638
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 4: they were twenty six and thirty nine, so you know,

639
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 4: to sort of have to win another five on top

640
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 4: of that. I mean, it's just tough in that Western Conference.

641
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 3: So you could talk me into it. Imagine if the

642
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 3: other eighteen, what if Aton wasn't suspended for twenty five games.

643
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 3: You know, maybe they pick up another couple of wins

644
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 3: there because he looked pretty good in the bub. I

645
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 3: don't know, you just got to feel a little encouraged.

646
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 3: They got to do something to commemorate it, you would think, right,

647
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 3: the only team to go eight to zero in a

648
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 3: seeding environment like this that has never happened, get jackets,

649
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 3: get rings, hats, T shirts. I don't know what it is,

650
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 3: but they got to do something about it, because you

651
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 3: got to be excited as a Suns fan. Your good

652
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 3: players are looking great and they actually look like look

653
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 3: like they fit well together. It's not just flashes of talent, right,

654
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 3: it looks like a cohesive unit. So I don't know

655
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 3: if Suns fans have to be excited, but I gotta

656
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 3: agree with Shack a little bit. We got to see

657
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 3: it in a real season. Of course, if it doesn't

658
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 3: happen next season, or if it does, maybe people will

659
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 3: be like, well, you know this one was delayed anyway,

660
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 3: So I mean, you can't win. But they look great

661
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 3: and they were a feel good story. But also it

662
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,479
Speaker 3: is very hard to be rooting against Damian Lillard in

663
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 3: that Blazers game, right, It's like that was a tough one.

664
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 4: That's a tough call, and also not to be a

665
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 4: debbie down. But they last three games, I mean the

666
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 4: thunder they were resting players, the Sixers were without him,

667
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 4: beat and Ben Simmons, and then the MAVs didn't show

668
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 4: up today, so they did get three Reichs there as well,

669
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 4: those for those last three games to close out. So

670
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 4: you know, I still won them.

671
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: But they weren't like skating by in those games though

672
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: you know it was a bit of a beat down,

673
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: like they were. They were damn good. I liked. I

674
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: like what I see from them. I'm buying in. I mean,

675
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: I think if they if they flirted with forty again,

676
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: if it was an eighty two game schedule, that would

677
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: be that'd be huge. They're just flirting with the eight

678
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: seed even if they don't get in again, it's exciting.

679
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 2: Not to be I'll be an Erarie Upper. Well, let

680
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 2: me let me try to find another U name of

681
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 2: Ulysses Upper. No, I'll be an Ursula upper here. And

682
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 2: the fact that they got thirty four wins here. This

683
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 2: is also a trunk aated season. There's no not eighty

684
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 2: two games in this season either, So yeah, there's some

685
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 2: extra wins to be had. Yeah, but it's totally true.

686
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 2: Shack is totally right. This does feel like an AAA tournament.

687
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 2: Even the nets out there watching them and how they're

688
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 2: performing with no crowds, no opposing crowds and none of that.

689
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 2: It definitely feels like there's there's just some some cinderell

690
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 2: some luck to be had in an environment like this.

691
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 2: What they got to do is go home and fix

692
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 2: that Phoenix home courted disadvantage that they got. I mean,

693
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 2: they struggle at home and they're good on the road.

694
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 2: It's if I'm looking at the standings right, I think

695
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 2: they're the only team that's better on the road than

696
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 2: they are at home. Something going on. They don't feel

697
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 2: amazing at home even come you know before they came

698
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 2: down here that it's not just like they had eight

699
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 2: road games down here, and that just adjusted their their

700
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 2: schedule or their numbers. They got they're lacking something there.

701
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 2: But yeah, of course you got to be seriously pumped

702
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 2: if you're a Phoenix Suns fan to to have some

703
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 2: dreams of five hundred, like you're probably this year or

704
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 2: last year's Minnesota Timberwolves. It seems like every year they

705
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 2: come in with some hopes of that nature. Yeah, you're

706
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 2: you're that team now that should be dreaming of the

707
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 2: eight seed in the Western Conference. Why not? Why the

708
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 2: heck not? They everything's everything's in line. You mentioned all

709
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 2: their guys, and Rubio's a decent guy to bring them

710
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 2: all together and their benches. I don't think they're really

711
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 2: overachieving when a guy like Sarich who's been around, is

712
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 2: decent and and you know, on down the line, like

713
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 2: I believe in campaign, even though some don't, I think

714
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 2: there's enough guys there.

715
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: Carter has been great. Yeah, well, they're doing things to

716
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: address that home court disadvantage, as we know, TESK. They're

717
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: doing all those video boards. They're a project that they

718
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: keep talking about on every broadcast. They're redoing the arena,

719
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: so maybe that'll help once there's fans ever into the

720
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: damn thing.

721
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, good meet you at the stick. I think

722
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 2: those commercials could be a little better. I'm not sure

723
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 2: they're in HD or are they. I mean they're not

724
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 2: really popping out to me. I guess they're They're using

725
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 2: a lot of CGI and so I get that. But hey,

726
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 2: smart idea. The arena's empty. Get down there, create some jobs,

727
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 2: go fix some stuff up, make it a great arena.

728
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 2: I was just at the Hawks Arena. It feels so

729
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 2: different than it does a couple or did a couple

730
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 2: of years ago. Like now, now I've gotten used to it,

731
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 2: the fact you can walk around the whole thing. I

732
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 2: don't know what I'm talking about Phillips Arena, but it's

733
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 2: just you put in a couple of hundred mil, no, biggie.

734
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 2: And that's the thing that's the problem with the Suns.

735
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 2: They've been on the cheap. Now it's time to get

736
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 2: some nice suitets in there and things will change. Things

737
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 2: will change, just like that.

738
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: Did you guys see Monty Williams speech to the team

739
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 1: after the game?

740
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 2: Lead?

741
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: Did you happen to catch that? No, it's if everyone's

742
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: like catching this live or listening to the podcast. Seek

743
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: that out if you haven't. There's a great I mean,

744
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the sons of course shared it and

745
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: then it got passed around. It's just him. It's him

746
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: talking to the team and how proud he is of

747
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: what they've done. And like this is before even the

748
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: Blazers nets game, so they don't even know if they're in,

749
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: but he's like, it ultimately doesn't even matter, because you know,

750
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: we came to we came down here to do what

751
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: we did, and I'm really proud of you guys. It's

752
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: pretty it's pretty emotional. You want to run through a

753
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: wall for the guy. So it's it's great. Things aillly good.

754
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: We also have to say goodbye to a streak a

755
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 1: round of applause. I guess for the Spurs twenty two

756
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: year playoffs streak. Twenty two years? That is wild. How

757
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 1: long have we been doing the show now? Task and

758
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,919
Speaker 1: JD we started what fifteen years.

759
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 5: Two thousand and six, January of two thousand and six, right, so.

760
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: We will this will be the first time we'll ever

761
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: do playoff previews, you know, any sort of playoff stuff

762
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: without talking about the Spurs. At some point I got

763
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: that it's crazy, and it was another seven years before that.

764
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 2: I can't believe it. Yeah, I can't believe it. I

765
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 2: went through that their franchise history today because it is remarkable.

766
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 2: They've been in the league for forty four years. In

767
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 2: the NBA, technically, they've won the championship five times and

768
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 2: they've missed the playoffs five times.

769
00:34:57,960 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's nuts.

770
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 2: That's a little nuts. When do you think about it?

771
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: Like that, Lee, who you rocking there today? Gnobli Jersey course?

772
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 2: Yeah?

773
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. So how are you feeling? Man, you're the

774
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: biggest Spurs fan.

775
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 4: I know I'm a bit like Pop you know. He

776
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 4: was just like, what streak? What are you talking about? Yeah?

777
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 4: It was going to come to an end at some point.

778
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 4: But on top of that, I think there's only been

779
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 4: four seasons in their history they haven't had an All Star,

780
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 4: which is truly remarkable as well. I think the streak

781
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 4: basically went back to when Duncan came along as well.

782
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 4: So this year they didn't have one. I think that's

783
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 4: the first time in twenty two years I haven't had

784
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 4: an All Star, which is incredible when you think about

785
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 4: that as well. So big question will be really, what

786
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 4: Pop does now, and he kind of was asked about

787
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 4: that after the game and he said, why wouldn't I

788
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 4: keep coaching? But I don't think he's going to use

789
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 4: that opportunity to announce that he's not coming back.

790
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: So this guy still holding it out.

791
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 4: I think once he gets back to San Antonio and

792
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 4: you know, and cools down, that's when he's just going

793
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 4: to release a little press release and just say that's it.

794
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 4: I'm done. Sorry, I'll hold onto it for now.

795
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 3: Why not you've heard I'm back now there's I'm done.

796
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but yeah, he's there was no way he

797
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 4: was just gonna answer that question. Was a lot yet, you

798
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 4: know what, I am actually done, Thanks for everything. Gods,

799
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 4: I'm out of here. Because he just wants to get

800
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 4: out of those press conferences. He doesn't like.

801
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: Him be an easy way to get out of the

802
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 1: press conference. Yea, never again. Yeah, that's pretty incredible that

803
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: the streak is over. But they they played really well

804
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: down here. I remember when we were firing this up,

805
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: there was a lot of talk of people saying Spurs

806
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: are gonna go like oh and eight or one and seven,

807
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: like they might be the worst team down here because

808
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna lean. There's no Aldridge. They're going to lean

809
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 1: heavily into their development of some guys you don't even know,

810
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,760
Speaker 1: and that'll be fine, and they won't care that they're

811
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: going to not make the playoffs. Stuff like that. And

812
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: they won a lot of games, a lot of lont

813
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: of games, and got a lot of great reps for

814
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: their young guys. Fun race, my god, unbelievable. That worked.

815
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: That worked about as well as it could for the NBA,

816
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 1: this whole megabole thing. I mean, if you forget the

817
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference, don'torry about that. And now we'll see if

818
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: the games on Saturday and then maybe Sunday can also

819
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: live up to the hype, because it's not done. It's

820
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 1: it's still the Grizzlies and Blazers. And uh got a

821
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 1: little mattine there on Saturday, and then maybe another one

822
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: on Sunday if the Grizzlies can have Dylan Brooks hit

823
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: another thirty and John Moranley could play some defense and

824
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: try and get the ball out of Damianlon's hands and

825
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: maybe the other guys can't come through. But I feel like,

826
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 1: and I know we're gona get to it later. The

827
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,760
Speaker 1: vibe I'm getting from everyone here. I feel like everyone

828
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: likes the Blazers chances to actually play the Lakers?

829
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 3: Is that?

830
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 1: Is that right?

831
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:44,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're reading you're reading the Zoom room correct, I'm reading. Okay,

832
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 2: I thought, I think so okay, So.

833
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:50,959
Speaker 4: Well, the thing is, I guess the only thing really

834
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 4: is how CJ is. If that back is, I mean

835
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 4: it's fractured, so you know, I mean he's battled on

836
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 4: so far. But if that, if he can't go for

837
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 4: some reason, then changes things a little bit. But if

838
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 4: they're at this time.

839
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 3: Man, that guy shows up way more than you're expected.

840
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 3: He's always open in the corner, if you can believe it.

841
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: Okay, we got lots more still to come, but we

842
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: got to take a quick break to think our sponsors,

843
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: So get your Bingo cards ready. I guess, guys, look

844
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: at me, Yeah, look at my face. Look at what

845
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: quarantine life has done to your boys, skeets. I look insane.

846
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: My beard is long, it's gnarly, it's unkempt, it's crazy.

847
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 1: Now what I want you to do is replace my

848
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: face with my penis, because that's what's going on basically downstairs.

849
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: This look right here, all of this same thing down there,

850
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: and I'm not proud of it. I've been lazy, but

851
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:54,239
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Speaker 4: Viewers and listeners of our show will no doubt have

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Speaker 4: noticed that, accidentally or not, every time Aaron Judge sucks

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Speaker 4: a dinger, I'm watching and I'm tweeting. I have no

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Speaker 4: idea if socking dingers is a real term or if

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Speaker 4: it was just used in an episode of the Simpsons

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Speaker 4: one time when Mark McGuire made a guest appearance. But anyway,

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Speaker 4: I'm going with it all season long, and the only

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Speaker 4: some sweet nectar out of a mug while watching at

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Speaker 4: Judge sock them made out of a baseball bat. And

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Speaker 3: I don't want to interrupt you, but can you put

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Speaker 3: kombucha in a baseball bat?

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Speaker 4: We were going to find out in about a week's

893
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Speaker 4: time because that's how long the has to sit and

894
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 4: ferment before it's ready. But in baseball, I mean like

895
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 4: in cricket, right, guys have their favorite cricket bat and

896
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 4: they use that bat and they don't want to use

897
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Speaker 4: anything else. Now it's changed a little bit. Guys go

898
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 4: through bats a bit more often these days. But back

899
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Speaker 4: in the day, a guy had his favorite bat in baseball, though,

900
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Speaker 4: how many bats does a guy like Judge us in

901
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 4: one game.

902
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 2: Use one?

903
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have their favorites too. They'll have backups and stuff.

904
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Speaker 4: But yeah, but but he doesn't change it every every

905
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 4: time he has an apt back. No, it's not like

906
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Speaker 4: a tennis racket.

907
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,959
Speaker 2: No, No, they.

908
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:43,760
Speaker 3: Do with tennis records.

909
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 4: Well, they have like five rackets a per per match.

910
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,879
Speaker 4: You know, because now you want to keep keep the string.

911
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, that's the same thing as cricket. You

912
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,720
Speaker 2: want to keep that baby around. Could be a lucky stick.

913
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,720
Speaker 2: Maybe you toss it after a bad night, but probably

914
00:41:58,840 --> 00:41:59,399
Speaker 2: not he keeps.

915
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Speaker 4: Okay. The point is, though, I mean Aaron Judge probably

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Speaker 4: goes through quite a few in a season. Mean oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 4: So I mean yeah, I mean I could get one

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Speaker 4: of his, wouldn't I made into a mug?

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Speaker 3: Well it's not me?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sure sure.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if if Judge he has ever been looking

922
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Speaker 1: at one of his bats going goddamn, I'd love to

923
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Speaker 1: drink out of that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think about that all the time now,

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Speaker 4: I have no idea how I'll go about getting a

931
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Speaker 4: Judge bat, but if anyone is connected with the Yankees

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Speaker 4: and there's a spare one lying around, give it to

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Speaker 4: me and I'll send it off to Dugout Mugs and

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Speaker 4: I'll see if they can make a mug for me

935
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Speaker 4: because I'm serious, I don't know, it wouldn't be one

936
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Speaker 4: of those things that's like sentimental, like too much for him.

937
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Speaker 4: And if people are worried, I'm gonna put it on

938
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Speaker 4: an eBay. Just chop it up first and send that

939
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 4: to me. Then you know what I mean.

940
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Speaker 2: I mean, you work for the next You don't think

941
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 2: you have a connection, not anymore.

942
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Speaker 4: But but the thing is, you know, because I've seen

943
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 4: those like creepy old men at a baseball game trying

944
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 4: to get autographs. No, they can try to get autographs

945
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 4: and they put them on eBay. I'm not trying to

946
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 4: like do that. I'm trying to I just want this mugs.

947
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: Actually, I'm trying to drink from a baseball bat.

948
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, So if someone can get me that bat,

949
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:32,760
Speaker 4: let's make it happen.

950
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:37,839
Speaker 1: Well, you could just get a dugout mugs mug mean

951
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: out of a baseball bat. Ingreeved with your with the Yankees logo,

952
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: you love the Yankees.

953
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 4: It's not quite the same, though.

954
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 3: Is it. No?

955
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 1: I guess not.

956
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,399
Speaker 4: It's nothink something like this can happen. It's not It's

957
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 4: not like it's not like you know, I mean, what

958
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 4: would it be like, I mean in basket a.

959
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:55,720
Speaker 1: Pencil out of wing Gretzky.

960
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 4: No, I'm not saying, hey, give me, give me a

961
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 4: pair of Michael Jordan's shoes. You know that are worth thousands.

962
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:01,800
Speaker 4: The bat's worth what a hundred bucks?

963
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: Yeah?

964
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, maybe I used bad. It's got to have

965
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 3: a little bit more value. What if you want to

966
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 3: touch What happens if you fly it out? Though I'm

967
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 3: not talking about the Grand Slam or something like.

968
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:14,839
Speaker 4: He just flied out and he was like, I hate

969
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 4: this piece of crap and he threw it to the side,

970
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,360
Speaker 4: and the bat boy said, oh sweet, I was listening

971
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:19,840
Speaker 4: to the show the other night and then want this

972
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 4: bat here it is?

973
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, your best bet is the well do they

974
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: even have them now? With the pandemic? The ball boy

975
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: or whatever, bat boy, I guess i'd be you're right,

976
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,280
Speaker 1: get them in the smuggle one.

977
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could definitely get one. He's got the same

978
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 2: bat multiplied by fire. He's got like five of the

979
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 2: same bat just in case one snaps. Man bat ball

980
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 2: Boy's got to bring it out for him. So that's

981
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 2: what I'm there.

982
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 4: How often the bats don't seem to break is often

983
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:45,760
Speaker 4: in these days, as they used.

984
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: To technology is great.

985
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, what's getting harder.

986
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:51,880
Speaker 2: Trees are getting stronger.

987
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: The balls are getting later as much force. When you

988
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 1: were saying all of this, though, it'd be cool if

989
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,439
Speaker 1: you could contact Judgie and say, hey, when you sock

990
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:06,800
Speaker 1: a dinger, what you gotta do is take your baseball

991
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:08,399
Speaker 1: bat and pretend you're drinking out of it.

992
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 3: Oh man, that's a great. Yeah, somebody's going to Now,

993
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,399
Speaker 3: somebody's going to be listening to this. That same bat

994
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,399
Speaker 3: boy is gonna say, you know what, thanks for the bat.

995
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 3: But they also mentioned something else. The next time you're

996
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 3: out there socking dingers, act like you're drinking. From the

997
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 3: end of it, everybody's thinking it.

998
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: You do it.

999
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 2: That's cool.

1000
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 1: That's a cool celebration. Taking a chug while you're running

1001
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: up to first base.

1002
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm checking who he's following on Twitter to see

1003
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 4: if there's any sort of connection there.

1004
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 2: Wow.

1005
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, while you do that, let's get to a

1006
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: little bit of news. Guys, don't ever listen to doctor

1007
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 1: Skeet's Okay. A mere twelve hours or so after I

1008
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:51,839
Speaker 1: confidently predicted that Russell Westbrook would absolutely play it at

1009
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 1: the start of the playoffs. That's just who he is. Guys,

1010
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: we learned. Nope, that's not the case. According to Jonathan

1011
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: Figen of the Houston Chronicle, the Rockets guard is expected

1012
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: to miss the first few games of the team's first

1013
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 1: round series versus the Nuggets, and possibly more tasks. I

1014
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: know we have our Western Conference playoff preview podcast that's

1015
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: on Sunday, so I'm sure we'll get into a great detail.

1016
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:17,439
Speaker 1: But not good here for Houston. He won't be there

1017
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: for I don't know a game or two. That sounds

1018
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:20,399
Speaker 1: of it, right.

1019
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, this doesn't sound good at all. It sounds like

1020
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,800
Speaker 2: you for the start of the series of our first

1021
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 2: few games. That means there's some serious problems with that quad,

1022
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 2: and there's going to be a lot on obviously James

1023
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 2: Harden and Eric Gordon, who is coming back from injury himself.

1024
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 2: He is their other playmaker. When you got a team

1025
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 2: like this where you really only have two playmakers two

1026
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 2: and a half with when Eric Gordon is around, that's

1027
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 2: a big issue for sure. For sure, the matchup is

1028
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 2: interesting that they have here with the Thunder too. The

1029
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,800
Speaker 2: Thunder are not to be a pushover by any means

1030
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 2: I would have liked it a lot more if they're

1031
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,800
Speaker 2: back with the with their old friends, the Utah Jazz

1032
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 2: for the third straight year, because they know the ins

1033
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:11,839
Speaker 2: and outs of that. They don't need a ton of

1034
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 2: offense against h that team, I don't think. But yeah,

1035
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 2: this is rough, this is going to be. This is

1036
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 2: changes the series dynamic big time.

1037
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,720
Speaker 1: Oh save it, save it, save it, but possibly changing

1038
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 1: your prediction at least the outcome of it.

1039
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I stopped myself because I

1040
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 2: don't want to give away too much. Don't want to

1041
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:34,919
Speaker 2: snap my bat here. I want to when I step

1042
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:36,879
Speaker 2: up to the step up to the plate. I want

1043
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 2: my thirty ouncer. I want that pine tard just the

1044
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 2: way I like it, and touch touch the bat, and

1045
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 2: touch my helmet and knock off the dirt off my feet.

1046
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 2: Step out for a second, blow a quick bubble, step

1047
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:49,959
Speaker 2: back in. Do they have gum these days? I'm not sure.

1048
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:51,720
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. Is that banned?

1049
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 3: Sunflower seeds We're definitely banned. I'm sure about gum. Your

1050
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 3: own mouth, yuess.

1051
00:47:58,360 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: You're not spitting gum?

1052
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1053
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: Did you? Did you have your routine tasks? Your classic

1054
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,359
Speaker 1: in the box routine, A couple of taps here there

1055
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: or whatever you did.

1056
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 2: I'm simple though, no no, no more Garcia power over here.

1057
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,799
Speaker 2: Just keep it keeping it simple, Susie.

1058
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well what did you do? I'm curious, do

1059
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 1: you remember we did?

1060
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 2: I'm just more of a step one foot, read the signs,

1061
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 2: step the other foot in. Yeah, little butt waggle and uh.

1062
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,760
Speaker 2: And then just just have the with the left hand

1063
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 2: on the bat, just you know, put it where, just

1064
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 2: kind of gently over the over the plate a couple

1065
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,720
Speaker 2: of times. Oh yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, just standard, just standard.

1066
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:40,399
Speaker 2: I wouldn't hit the plate. I'm not hitting the plate.

1067
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 2: I'm not one.

1068
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 1: Oh I'm a tapper. I'm a plate tapper. Yeah. Yeah,

1069
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: here we go. And then then right up into it,

1070
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: right up, yeah, not taking time, not taking a ton

1071
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 1: of time, just quick quick, you know, just quick tap there,

1072
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 1: double tap for sure. Anyone want to add anything else

1073
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: to the west Brook I know we talked about it

1074
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 1: already a little bit and we are going to get

1075
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 1: into the predictions Lee any thing.

1076
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 4: Well, just it's a concern when they are saying the

1077
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 4: first few games, like if they can't put a sort

1078
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 4: of date or time on it to me, that sounds

1079
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 4: worse than it probably is. So it'll it'll suck for

1080
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:13,359
Speaker 4: him and the Rockets if he can't play at all

1081
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 4: in that series, because I think this has the potential

1082
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 4: to be the best series of the first round. But

1083
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 4: if Westbrook's not there, it's gonna take it's gonna take

1084
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:22,359
Speaker 4: a little bit of the sting out of it. I mean,

1085
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 4: Harden will go for fifty probably in that series. I

1086
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 4: mean again, because Gordon is back, but you still think

1087
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 4: he's a couple of games away from really competing, So

1088
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 4: could be it could be crazy. I mean the Rockets,

1089
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 4: doesn't you know. I know, I'm obviously going to pick

1090
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 4: the Thunder, but certainly not going to be a Whitewashbony

1091
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 4: means the Rockets will still make this a series without

1092
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:45,320
Speaker 4: with or without Westbrook.

1093
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm interesting in the battle of pace in this

1094
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 1: series right with a you know, it's not a good

1095
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: matchup and away for the Rockets in my opinion, because

1096
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 1: some teams fall into the trap of like, hey, we're

1097
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 1: playing pick up here, We're just firing threes. This is fun,

1098
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,439
Speaker 1: this is cool. But I I feel like Chris paul

1099
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:03,879
Speaker 1: is anti that he's like no, no, no, no, no,

1100
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 1: we're not playing that way. We're playing on the speed

1101
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:08,360
Speaker 1: I want to play, and you know the style that

1102
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna play, and we'll see how that clash happens there.

1103
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:13,400
Speaker 1: I'm excited for that. Should be a good series. So

1104
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: you're still but I'm with you. I mean, it loses

1105
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: a little juice if Westbrook isn't in the mix, so hopefully.

1106
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:20,240
Speaker 3: I mean it sucks, right because the guy's been playing

1107
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:22,879
Speaker 3: so well and adds just another element, and it would

1108
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:24,840
Speaker 3: have been fun to see can a team that's built

1109
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 3: of all smallies actually perform well in the playoffs. And

1110
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 3: now we're not going to get a really good read

1111
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 3: on that if this is actually an experiment that Houston

1112
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 3: could continue, because Westbrook's gonna miss whatever these games are.

1113
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 3: And then when he comes back, he's probably not at

1114
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 3: one hundred percent when he comes back from an injury, right,

1115
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 3: we'll take a little bit, so we're not seeing the

1116
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 3: one hundred percent rockets probably throughout this whole first round.

1117
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 3: Maybe that's still enough to beat the Thunder, but it's

1118
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 3: gonna be tough because okay, see he's got a lot

1119
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 3: of small guys that they can play as well, right,

1120
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 3: like they could play at Denilo Gallinari almost out of

1121
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 3: five along trying to battle with PJ. Tucker. Who knows.

1122
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:57,800
Speaker 3: It could be fun. We could see some high scores,

1123
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 3: but Chris Paul will control the tempo and I don't know.

1124
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 3: It definitely shifts my perspective as well.

1125
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 1: M well, let's play a little Hey what about this guy?

1126
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 1: Because yesterday the NBA added a Coach of the Bubble

1127
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: Award to the mix. I thought this was a joke

1128
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: at first. I'll be honest. I saw the tweet go

1129
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:15,880
Speaker 1: out and I'm like, that can't be right, Like, hold on,

1130
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:17,720
Speaker 1: they announced that they were gonna do the all Bubble

1131
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: teams and there was gonna be a Bubble MVP, and

1132
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,359
Speaker 1: then like a couple of days later, like, well, we're

1133
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: gonna throw a Coach of the Bubble in here too.

1134
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: But it's true. This will be voted on by the

1135
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:30,360
Speaker 1: by the media members that are actually down there in

1136
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 1: Disney World. Is there a favorite? Is this Monty Williams

1137
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 1: Award to lose? Can anyone take it from Lee? What

1138
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 1: do you think?

1139
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:37,840
Speaker 3: No?

1140
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 4: That you might as well just give it to Monty

1141
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 4: as it like, well, you didn't make the plane, so

1142
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 4: you can have this trophy? Why not? I mean, who

1143
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 4: else are you going to really give it to out

1144
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 4: of anyone? Dawn there? I mean maybe, Yeah, I mean.

1145
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 1: I think Jacques Vaughan would have been interesting, especially if

1146
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,320
Speaker 1: they got another win tonight. I think it would have

1147
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 1: been there may have been a case for him, Nay

1148
00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: mc millan, Okay, yeah, and maybe if the Spurs had

1149
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 1: somehow gotten in that you just go pop to. But

1150
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: I'm worried that they almost were, Like, oh, I think

1151
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 1: the Suns are gonna win every game, not make the

1152
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 1: play in Booker despite going for thirty plus, is not

1153
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: gonna win MVP now of this bubble MVP because it's

1154
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 1: going to Deem because they're gonna get in. Uh, well,

1155
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:19,360
Speaker 1: we gotta give him something. We gotta do something. Well,

1156
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: why don't we just do a coach bubble? Oh yeah, okay,

1157
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: we could do that, just give it to Monty Limbs.

1158
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: And I'm sort of convinced that's what they did. Otherwise,

1159
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:27,319
Speaker 1: why was this announced a couple of days later? I

1160
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: don't really get it.

1161
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't make sense. It's not like unheard of

1162
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 3: to think of coach of the something since they have

1163
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,879
Speaker 3: coach of everything else. Right, it's like, oh, oh yeah,

1164
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 3: coach of the bubble. That sounds good, It has a

1165
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 3: good ring to it. You're probably right. It's Monty Williams

1166
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 3: or to win and he's gonna win it. And he

1167
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 3: looked the best in the polos. So I feel like

1168
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 3: it's a double vote for Monty Williams. He killed it.

1169
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,720
Speaker 3: The son's killed it. So enjoyed the award.

1170
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought the raps looking great and they're light.

1171
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:58,839
Speaker 2: Sam and polos as well.

1172
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:00,919
Speaker 1: Those, yeah, those are nice.

1173
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 2: Those were nice. Yeah, the gray was a little weird

1174
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 2: on the collar, but I did like those. It is strange.

1175
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 2: I think we've had more coach awards handed out in

1176
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 2: the last three weeks than we've had player awards, right,

1177
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 2: because there was the Coaches whatever it is Association, all

1178
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,800
Speaker 2: three of them voted for Bud this season. Everybody loves

1179
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 2: coach awards, everybody, So Money's got to take it home.

1180
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:24,879
Speaker 2: It's what Trey said earlier. Yeah, they need to have

1181
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 2: something commemorative. And they had a great, great, great run

1182
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 2: and it's sad. It's sad that a team comes in

1183
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 2: eight to no and still can't make the postseason. It's

1184
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 2: a little strange. It's a tiny bit strange. I understand,

1185
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:43,439
Speaker 2: I understand the math behind it. And the Blazers went

1186
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:47,280
Speaker 2: six and two, so they're not in. But it's crazy.

1187
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 1: By the way, the coaches coaches vote split that between

1188
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:53,720
Speaker 1: Budenholzer and Building.

1189
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, there's going to be four Coaches of

1190
00:53:57,640 --> 00:53:58,439
Speaker 3: the Year this year.

1191
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:02,399
Speaker 1: Yeah there is. Nick Nurse is gonna win the actual one. Yeah,

1192
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 1: you're right. The coaches split it between Billy Donovan and

1193
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: Bud and then Monty Williams is going to win this one.

1194
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 1: Maybe there's a coach's a word for this one too.

1195
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 1: In the bubble the.

1196
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 3: Coaches, Yeah, somebody else could be fun.

1197
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:19,359
Speaker 1: Maybe that's maybe that's where Jacquevon gets it. Who knows?

1198
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: All right? Final one. Henry Abbotts sources down in the

1199
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 1: Orlando bubble tell him that the nb NBPA, I hate

1200
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:30,319
Speaker 1: reading NBPA. I always screw it up. Have you noticed

1201
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: that every podcast I screw it up? The head of

1202
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:38,800
Speaker 1: the NBPA, Michelle Roberts, met with players in groups on Wednesday.

1203
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: Now everyone wore masks, according to Henry Abbot's sources, but

1204
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 1: there were a few key takeaways. These are interesting Roberts

1205
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 1: expects the current collective bargaining agreement is toast rip it up,

1206
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 1: but she's optimistic about negotiating a new one. Okay, that's good.

1207
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 1: And next season will most likely begin sometime between late

1208
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:03,680
Speaker 1: January and early March, and those you know, later dates

1209
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 1: would affect the Olympics if they if they started early March.

1210
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 1: Any takeaways from this again, Henry Abbott, he knows his stuff.

1211
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,400
Speaker 1: He's got somebody down there inside the bubble feeding them

1212
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 1: in this information of these meetings from Michelle robertson players,

1213
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:19,320
Speaker 1: What do you think that's what's your takeaway?

1214
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:23,160
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not going to claim that I am a

1215
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 2: CBA expert, but it's sort of logical when you think

1216
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 2: about the CBA was designed for a different time, a

1217
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 2: different era, when everything was secure and we just understood

1218
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 2: what was happening from year to year to year. So

1219
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:42,400
Speaker 2: it makes sense that they would want to at least

1220
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 2: rip it up, you know, put it in the toast,

1221
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 2: put it in the toaster and call it a call

1222
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 2: it a day, and be able to come up with

1223
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 2: something new. That that second part that they're optimistic about

1224
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:55,880
Speaker 2: negotiating a new one is is very very positive news

1225
00:55:56,160 --> 00:56:00,319
Speaker 2: that that's just almost unheard of unless it it's like

1226
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 2: a you know, basic template off of the first the

1227
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 2: prior one with you know, some changes. You just don't

1228
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 2: hear that in sports very often, that these two parties

1229
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 2: are coming up with a new CBA and are very

1230
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 2: close like immediately, that's just not really heard of. So

1231
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 2: that's a positive. And I would say the last part

1232
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 2: about the NBA season moving to January, between January and March,

1233
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 2: it makes a heck of a lot of sense. We

1234
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 2: talked about it last week, the fact that the further

1235
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 2: you push it out, the more likely you are to

1236
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 2: have fans. And this league has shown it can put

1237
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 2: a bubble together. It's shown it's very adaptable. So I

1238
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:41,280
Speaker 2: think they're comfortable with not waiting until the last minute,

1239
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 2: but yeah, extending it more than any other league would

1240
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:49,439
Speaker 2: be in the foresight to be able to say, hey,

1241
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,080
Speaker 2: we can wait until you know. I'm not going to

1242
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 2: put a date on it, but wait till you know

1243
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:58,240
Speaker 2: the sort of the last couple months before the season

1244
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 2: starts and then start to fly and and put things together.

1245
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 2: Because of what they just did, but it makes more

1246
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 2: sense because yeah, you're gonna have potentially have butts in

1247
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 2: the seats, and that's the important part. As far as

1248
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 2: the Olympics, goyah doesn't really bother me.

1249
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:16,120
Speaker 1: I can't imagine they care all that much about that.

1250
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: I really don't. I've seen other like reports, like other

1251
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 1: leagues have like stopped their season right while their Olympics

1252
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: to allow players to go play in them. That seems

1253
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: far fetched for the NBA for some weird reason to me,

1254
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: But maybe I don't know.

1255
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 4: You don't do that like WNBA. I think though, didn't they?

1256
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 1: NHL has definitely done it for sure. Yeah, no, I

1257
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: think there are multiple leagues.

1258
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 3: Doesn't it seem more likely though, that the NBA will

1259
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 3: just not have their athletes there. Mark Cuban's been fighting

1260
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 3: against players playing in the summer for their national teams

1261
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 3: for a decade, right, I don't know. It seems like

1262
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 3: that's something that could happen, But I don't think that's

1263
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 3: something that's going to be a huge concern for the

1264
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 3: NBA trying to get a new collective bargaining agreement figured

1265
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:00,960
Speaker 3: out if that's what's the case. And once we heard

1266
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 3: the news that forty percent of revenue and the current

1267
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:06,200
Speaker 3: CBA comes from fans being in stands and that that's

1268
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 3: going to be a big question mark for the league.

1269
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 3: Something was going to change. And it seems like this

1270
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 3: experience of the bubble of the players and the governors

1271
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 3: all working together and seeing how it's actually been successful

1272
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 3: makes everybody want to work together again to try and

1273
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 3: get it figured out for the next thing so that

1274
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 3: they can continue to be successful, that they can continue

1275
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 3: to be the league that looks like they're doing everything right. So,

1276
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 3: I mean this is encouraging. You know, when we first

1277
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,640
Speaker 3: started hearing CBA talks, it was like the players better

1278
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 3: be careful or else the owners are going to rip

1279
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:36,360
Speaker 3: this thing up. And that's kind of what's happening. But

1280
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 3: it seems a lot nicer now and it seems like

1281
00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 3: everybody's sort of more so on the same page.

1282
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, let's figure this out together just to make

1283
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 1: a lot of money. Still together, and you have to

1284
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:49,680
Speaker 1: have confidence in the two leaders of their respective parties

1285
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 1: in Adam Silver and Michelle Roberts. I mean, it does

1286
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:54,920
Speaker 1: give you some confidence. They see they have what appears

1287
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 1: to be at least a great working relationship and respect

1288
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:01,320
Speaker 1: for each other. And yeah, hopefully if it's ripped up,

1289
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: they get to work on a new one, and both

1290
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 1: parties for the most part, are happy anything to add there.

1291
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 4: Leally well, yeah, John Hollinger had an article I think

1292
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 4: today it was sort of saying how some of those

1293
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 4: delete eight teams, the owners weren't happy that they might

1294
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 4: be going, you know, potentially you know, twelve months before

1295
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 4: they get fans in the tendance. So if you rip

1296
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 4: up this collective bargaining agreement, that sort of gives those

1297
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 4: owners a chance to somehow maybe like try to change

1298
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 4: the terms of it. I think that's what I'd be

1299
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 4: a little bit concerned about, because we know a lot

1300
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:35,160
Speaker 4: of these owners are billionaires, you know, in theory, but

1301
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 4: anytime they're losing money, they're going to try to recoup it.

1302
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 4: So I yeah, Well, to me, that's a sort of

1303
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 4: tricky little negotiation that if all of a sudden, this

1304
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 4: collective bargain agreement is done and you have some owners

1305
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 4: who all of a sudden were projecting to bring in

1306
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 4: all sorts of revenue and they didn't do it, they

1307
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 4: may try some other tactic, I think. So I hope not,

1308
00:59:57,080 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 4: but that's true.

1309
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 1: A lot of trust in billionaires exactly. Sometimes worrisome.

1310
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, because we saw on the on the

1311
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:07,960
Speaker 4: last one as well. I mean they they are not

1312
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 4: really going to budge too much. I mean, they want

1313
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:13,280
Speaker 4: to make as much money as they can. And again,

1314
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:16,040
Speaker 4: a lot of them, you know, it's that paper wealth

1315
01:00:16,080 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 4: of being a billionaire, but they actually carry huge debts everywhere.

1316
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 4: So so you know, we'll see, we'll see. I mean

1317
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 4: hopefully people say, listen, we just need to get the

1318
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:26,400
Speaker 4: game back up and running, and everyone's going to take

1319
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:28,440
Speaker 4: a hit, because everyone is going to take a hit.

1320
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:31,760
Speaker 4: So hopefully they can find some middle ground there. But

1321
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 4: I don't think it'll be I don't think it'd be

1322
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:37,680
Speaker 4: super smooth anyway. I think there'll be some issues there.

1323
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:41,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just fascinated to see how how

1324
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 1: serious the NBA are about waiting it out to the

1325
01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: possibility of having fans back in arenas. Like I mean,

1326
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 1: I've said before, the people I've talked to is like

1327
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:51,920
Speaker 1: they're like, they're no way they're doing this again. The

1328
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:54,080
Speaker 1: bubble as great as it's gone. They're just like, it's

1329
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 1: that expensive. People aren't going to want to do it

1330
01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 1: for an entire season. How the hell do you even

1331
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 1: do that? Wrap your head aroun on that even if

1332
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 1: there's these regional pod and stuff like that, it's like,

1333
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: and they want to make money having people actually come

1334
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 1: to the arena, even if it's a reduced number of

1335
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:10,920
Speaker 1: people you can put in your fifteen thousand, you know

1336
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:15,040
Speaker 1: person arena. So yeah, how long will they wait though

1337
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:18,640
Speaker 1: vaccine comes into play? Just how the country feels at

1338
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: that time of even the idea of going to an event,

1339
01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:23,720
Speaker 1: like I can't wrap my head around going to a

1340
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:28,680
Speaker 1: you know, going down to Phillips Arena with five thousand people,

1341
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:31,240
Speaker 1: let's say, even like, there's no way I'm doing that yet.

1342
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:34,480
Speaker 1: Maybe there are others out there, but yeah, it'll be weird.

1343
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very weird to think that. Like, I mean,

1344
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:39,000
Speaker 3: it's possible that the season could end in October and

1345
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 3: then they take five months off. That's even longer than

1346
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:44,280
Speaker 3: we've been off now, right, like the NBA Finals that

1347
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 3: they're talking about starting in March. Yeah, that's a huge gap.

1348
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:49,880
Speaker 3: So yeah, we shall see.

1349
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not much different though than you know, the

1350
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 2: four months that we usually get, you know, if between

1351
01:01:56,360 --> 01:02:00,720
Speaker 2: June and and October. So I think just financial, they

1352
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 2: recoup so much money with what they're doing right now,

1353
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:05,680
Speaker 2: and that goes into every owner's pocket. So I just

1354
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:09,280
Speaker 2: I think the owners have to put their trust into

1355
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:12,360
Speaker 2: uh to Adam Silver to to find a way to

1356
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:15,440
Speaker 2: do it next season. That he's done it, they collectively,

1357
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:17,680
Speaker 2: it's not just Adam Silver, but he and Michelle Robertson

1358
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 2: and the MVPA and everybody have done it better than

1359
01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 2: everybody else, and they're they're reaping the rewards right now.

1360
01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 2: It can obviously go downhill, but they're all they're all

1361
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:30,000
Speaker 2: making that TV money, and yeah, it is going to

1362
01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:32,920
Speaker 2: be strange as far as the fandom park goes. That's

1363
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:38,680
Speaker 2: whether they do separate bubbles and then you're telling guys

1364
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:42,760
Speaker 2: like bubbles as in, you know, you have bases, so

1365
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:45,959
Speaker 2: you're not flying around everywhere. Right, maybe, but maybe it's

1366
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:49,200
Speaker 2: a little bit less strict of a bubble, But then

1367
01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 2: you're sticking people again without their families for an extent.

1368
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 2: It's it's it's odd. So that's maybe that's why they

1369
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 2: want the cleanest thing possible, and the cleanest thing would

1370
01:02:56,640 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 2: be start when they have vaccines and maybe we can

1371
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 2: have you know, at least fifty capacity in buildings or

1372
01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:04,520
Speaker 2: something to that effect.

1373
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 1: We'll see, all right, let's get to Wibley, little bit.

1374
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:12,720
Speaker 1: Wibley honorable mentions to Karris Lavert, huge, Damian Lillard honorable

1375
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:15,440
Speaker 1: mention not giving it to him. Maybe I'm just tired

1376
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 1: of giving it to him. Great game though, forty two

1377
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 1: and twelve, A ton of threes again, No wile boy

1378
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 1: goes to Yonas Valanciunas. Jonas Valentiunis lee twenty six points,

1379
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:28,880
Speaker 1: eleven to seventeen, two for two at the line, two

1380
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 1: three pointers made for the big guy, nineteen rebounds and

1381
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:37,600
Speaker 1: insane twelve assists. I still can't believe that. And he

1382
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:39,560
Speaker 1: had a block to boot.

1383
01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 3: It was.

1384
01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:44,080
Speaker 1: It was neck and neck. It was Dame and Jonas again.

1385
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:47,160
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I have high expectations too for what even

1386
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:49,439
Speaker 1: Dame's gonna do on Saturday. And he'll probably be getting

1387
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 1: another one there, So Jonas Valentiunis feels good to give

1388
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: him one too. The former Rafters big man call me

1389
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:56,160
Speaker 1: a homer.

1390
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 2: I don't care.

1391
01:03:57,480 --> 01:04:00,360
Speaker 3: Come on, Skeets, you saw that Bass Pro Shops trophy

1392
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:03,360
Speaker 3: game and knew you had to follow suit. Oh somebody

1393
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 3: out there tossing some lures and it's working. You got

1394
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:06,960
Speaker 3: to do the same thing. I get it.

1395
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:09,360
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe what I said. That so excited for

1396
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:11,440
Speaker 1: You's gonna love this graphic.

1397
01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:14,080
Speaker 3: Such a great name the trophy game.

1398
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:17,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, beautiful it is, alright, Lee tweeted the night.

1399
01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 2: Treed over night Wow Twitter.

1400
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, just before we get to that one other

1401
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 4: thing from that game, the Eonis Valentinis game, Chris Middleton

1402
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,840
Speaker 4: basically had a chance to end the season fifty forty

1403
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:37,240
Speaker 4: ninety yeah, but he ended up going five to thirteen

1404
01:04:37,240 --> 01:04:39,400
Speaker 4: from the field, So he ends the season at forty

1405
01:04:39,560 --> 01:04:43,120
Speaker 4: nine point nine, forty one point six from three, and

1406
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:44,880
Speaker 4: ninety one point nine from the line.

1407
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:47,880
Speaker 1: Well, you weren't listening to the podcast earlier tonight when

1408
01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:49,000
Speaker 1: we were recording.

1409
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:50,080
Speaker 4: Well did you say that already?

1410
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:51,720
Speaker 2: I was.

1411
01:04:51,760 --> 01:04:53,240
Speaker 4: I was looking I was looking up that and I

1412
01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 4: was also looking up. We addressed it. We addressed it

1413
01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:59,000
Speaker 4: like Eonis Valentina's career high five assists. He's done that

1414
01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:02,160
Speaker 4: a few times. So okay, yeah, I'm trying. I'm trying

1415
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:04,760
Speaker 4: to I'm trying to factor fact check here alive. No,

1416
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:06,600
Speaker 4: you miss a few things, you know, sure?

1417
01:05:06,680 --> 01:05:09,120
Speaker 1: Sure, I hope you got a tweetter the next Oh yeah,

1418
01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:09,360
Speaker 1: I have.

1419
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 4: It was gonna make more sense if the if the

1420
01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:15,760
Speaker 4: Nets had won, because it comes from it comes from streaky,

1421
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:20,600
Speaker 4: it comes from streaky streaker, streaky shooter, he says. The

1422
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 4: Sun's waving Tyler Johnson, who then gets signed by the

1423
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:25,800
Speaker 4: Nets and helps them beat the Blazers to allow the

1424
01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:29,200
Speaker 4: Suns to make the playoffs would absolutely be the funniest

1425
01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:32,400
Speaker 4: four D chess move in NBA history. Yeah it would

1426
01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:32,680
Speaker 4: have been.

1427
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:35,640
Speaker 1: So yeah, still still going with.

1428
01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:38,080
Speaker 4: That, Wyeah, what the hell? Yeah? Yeah I had. I

1429
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:39,960
Speaker 4: actually had a tweet from Mark Cuban earlier in the

1430
01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 4: day because I'm not going to mention this head who

1431
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:47,000
Speaker 4: was tweeting about NBA NBA ratings, but it's like, I

1432
01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:48,760
Speaker 4: just want to say, if you don't want to watch

1433
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 4: the NBA, then off and don't watch it. No one

1434
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 4: cares because there's a there's a clown out there who

1435
01:05:54,600 --> 01:05:58,640
Speaker 4: keeps on tweeting like, oh, Yike's NBA, don't watch it, man,

1436
01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:02,280
Speaker 4: No one cares, No one cares, and no one wants you.

1437
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:04,479
Speaker 4: No one wants you. Same goes to the president doesn't

1438
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:08,000
Speaker 4: want to watch it, off and don't watch it. Then seriously,

1439
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:09,120
Speaker 4: who cares?

1440
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:12,280
Speaker 3: Agree?

1441
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:14,439
Speaker 1: That's the real tweet of the day, right.

1442
01:06:15,440 --> 01:06:18,600
Speaker 4: Well, like people coming in you know, it's like Ricky

1443
01:06:18,640 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 4: Gervay says, you know, on Twitter, like when you when

1444
01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:24,640
Speaker 4: you tweet something and people like take offense to it.

1445
01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:27,080
Speaker 4: It's like when those people put the you know, there's

1446
01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:29,560
Speaker 4: pieces of paper up on like a signpost, like says

1447
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:32,560
Speaker 4: guitar lessons. Someone's walking past and they grab one and

1448
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:34,280
Speaker 4: they say right, and they get their phone on their

1449
01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:35,520
Speaker 4: I don't.

1450
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:43,440
Speaker 1: Want guitar lessons, right, you can just just walk right

1451
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:46,240
Speaker 1: by it, you know, serious.

1452
01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:50,400
Speaker 4: Man, Like, listen, listen. I know NBA is not competing

1453
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:54,280
Speaker 4: with the NFL in America right, Globally, it's not even close.

1454
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:57,200
Speaker 4: The NBA is miles ahead of the NFL. But I

1455
01:06:57,200 --> 01:06:59,040
Speaker 4: don't care if you love NFL watch it.

1456
01:06:59,360 --> 01:06:59,720
Speaker 3: I don't.

1457
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:01,920
Speaker 4: You don't see me tweeting out and say, oh and

1458
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:04,800
Speaker 4: I hate NFL, Like this is crap, you know what

1459
01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 4: I mean, I just don't watch it. It's just saying,

1460
01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:10,919
Speaker 4: you know, like so when people try to use those

1461
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:14,560
Speaker 4: those ratings, and by the way, Mark Cuban as the owner,

1462
01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:18,360
Speaker 4: I expect he has the more clarification on those ratings,

1463
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 4: and he pointed out some things to that clown about

1464
01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 4: those ratings. And again it's like, oh, man.

1465
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:28,160
Speaker 1: Well you can tell it's our fifteenth consecutive night here

1466
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:31,000
Speaker 1: of bubble wrap and it is our last one. Is

1467
01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:31,800
Speaker 1: Lee's over this?

1468
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:33,400
Speaker 3: I love it.

1469
01:07:33,600 --> 01:07:34,360
Speaker 1: I love the passion.

1470
01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:34,560
Speaker 3: Man.

1471
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:37,240
Speaker 2: Clearly, I don't want to correct your correction, but I

1472
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 2: think because just because we did talk about earlier that

1473
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:43,760
Speaker 2: Chris Milton came into the game forty nine point nine

1474
01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:47,120
Speaker 2: and for some reason, after going yet five or thirteen,

1475
01:07:47,360 --> 01:07:49,720
Speaker 2: NBA dot Com hasn't at forty nine point seven, and

1476
01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:53,240
Speaker 2: they've updated it to sixty two games, while Basketball Reference

1477
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:54,960
Speaker 2: still behind the lagging.

1478
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:57,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, basketball Reference is usually a day behind anyway, But

1479
01:07:57,880 --> 01:08:00,480
Speaker 4: I was actually on ESPN so may but that that

1480
01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:01,360
Speaker 4: seemed to update.

1481
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:03,600
Speaker 2: How many game we got there? How many games do

1482
01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:04,800
Speaker 2: you play on that?

1483
01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:09,960
Speaker 4: Again, because ESPN usually it takes a few hours off

1484
01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:11,600
Speaker 4: of the game. But they finished up. Let me check

1485
01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:11,960
Speaker 4: it out.

1486
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 3: Well, it sounds to me like Chris Middleton sucks at shooting, now,

1487
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Speaker 3: you know.

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01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 4: But I'm a little surprised that he agreed that he

1489
01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:23,280
Speaker 4: didn't just get a couple of layups and then.

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Speaker 2: He tried, he tried working.

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01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:29,360
Speaker 1: I think he had if he had hit. Was it

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01:08:29,439 --> 01:08:30,760
Speaker 1: just did he just need to hit two in a

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01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:32,280
Speaker 1: row or was it a little bit more? And then

1494
01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:34,760
Speaker 1: he could have been like good like to start the game.

1495
01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:36,400
Speaker 1: I forgot I saw someone he tweeted.

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01:08:37,640 --> 01:08:40,040
Speaker 2: It definitely had a three early that he turned down

1497
01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:41,880
Speaker 2: that he could have shut. But he said, you know what,

1498
01:08:42,360 --> 01:08:43,880
Speaker 2: I might as well go for a lay up here.

1499
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:46,200
Speaker 2: And then he missed the layup and he missed a three.

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01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:48,479
Speaker 2: I don't know how much he was thinking about it,

1501
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:51,080
Speaker 2: but I'm just I'm just biding some time until he

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01:08:51,240 --> 01:08:53,800
Speaker 2: finds that thing that we don't we're looking for.

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01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:57,000
Speaker 4: Now, what do you look at? Batman played the sixty

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01:08:57,040 --> 01:08:58,200
Speaker 4: one still? Yeah?

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01:08:58,640 --> 01:09:01,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we got sixty two here on NBA dot Com.

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01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:04,120
Speaker 2: Unfortunately John Schuman isn't live with us tonight for some

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01:09:04,200 --> 01:09:04,920
Speaker 2: crazy reason.

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01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:08,360
Speaker 3: Wow sixty one sixty two feel like socking Dingers all

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01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 3: over again?

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01:09:08,960 --> 01:09:09,120
Speaker 5: Back?

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01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 3: Yeah?

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01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:13,519
Speaker 2: Nice yeah, nice, perfect perfect true.

1513
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 1: So big picking results happened earlier today. That Bucks Grizzlies

1514
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:22,080
Speaker 1: game was the game we were picking, and Milwaukee was

1515
01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:23,880
Speaker 1: favored by four and a half, or at least that

1516
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:24,439
Speaker 1: was our line.

1517
01:09:24,479 --> 01:09:24,720
Speaker 2: I don't know.

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01:09:24,800 --> 01:09:27,160
Speaker 1: We got that from the dark web. I can't remember anymore.

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01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:30,639
Speaker 1: But anyway, Tastin Lee took Milwaukee to cover. They didn't

1520
01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:32,880
Speaker 1: even win, they got hammered. So that's a loss for

1521
01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:36,840
Speaker 1: Tassin Lee. That puts them to eight and seven. Here

1522
01:09:36,880 --> 01:09:40,559
Speaker 1: in the bubble, Well, try and I. We picked the

1523
01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:43,760
Speaker 1: Grizzlies to win, to cover. At the very least they

1524
01:09:43,800 --> 01:09:46,479
Speaker 1: get it done. That improves us to eight and seven.

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01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:50,719
Speaker 1: That's right. We have a four way time right now

1526
01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:54,600
Speaker 1: as we sort of wrap up the seating games. And

1527
01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:56,799
Speaker 1: we said we were gonna call it after the seating games.

1528
01:09:57,280 --> 01:09:59,120
Speaker 1: So what are we gonna do here? I mean, I

1529
01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:02,439
Speaker 1: know there's basketball being played tomorrow, tasks, but no one

1530
01:10:02,479 --> 01:10:07,080
Speaker 1: cares ourselves included. We're gonna go right into our podcast previews.

1531
01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:09,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't want I don't want us to be

1532
01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:12,320
Speaker 2: betting on whether or not Frank Mason is going to

1533
01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:16,240
Speaker 2: have a big game. No offense to Frank Mason. Every

1534
01:10:16,280 --> 01:10:19,240
Speaker 2: time I see Frank Mason play, I ask who is that?

1535
01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:21,680
Speaker 2: I figure it out, and then I forget it about

1536
01:10:22,080 --> 01:10:26,240
Speaker 2: twenty five minutes later. I love Frank Mason. But the

1537
01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:30,720
Speaker 2: rest of the rest of all the rosters, there's four games.

1538
01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:35,720
Speaker 2: Everybody look up and down every single matchup. Unlikely to

1539
01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:38,080
Speaker 2: be playing their a guys, So yeah, what are we

1540
01:10:38,160 --> 01:10:41,000
Speaker 2: doing here? It's just there's no use. There's no use

1541
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:43,160
Speaker 2: for that. So I'm not going to force us all

1542
01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:45,439
Speaker 2: to go to ESPN dot com and then NBA dot

1543
01:10:45,479 --> 01:10:48,160
Speaker 2: com and and and so I think we should just

1544
01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:52,480
Speaker 2: wait till Saturday when the lines are out for the

1545
01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:56,000
Speaker 2: Mega Bowl, the Blazers and the Grizzlies, because they're not out,

1546
01:10:56,120 --> 01:10:59,599
Speaker 2: and we got to take this seriously. We can't mess

1547
01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:02,960
Speaker 2: around and just make up a line. So let's just

1548
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:06,479
Speaker 2: put it up online on all our channels. Okay, on

1549
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:10,320
Speaker 2: our instagrams, our tweets. We don't f beat a lot,

1550
01:11:10,400 --> 01:11:13,479
Speaker 2: but maybe we'll put it on f B too, And yeah,

1551
01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:15,840
Speaker 2: we'll go from there. We'll go from there. We'll see

1552
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:19,400
Speaker 2: who loses, and then we'll make a decision because maybe

1553
01:11:19,439 --> 01:11:20,559
Speaker 2: we'll have a Sunday game.

1554
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:23,720
Speaker 1: It's possible. It's possible. So hey, money, melose though, if

1555
01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:25,400
Speaker 1: you were setting the line, what are you sett in

1556
01:11:25,400 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 1: this line? Grizzlies Blazers, Saturday two thirty ABC. Grizzly's gotta

1557
01:11:30,960 --> 01:11:32,360
Speaker 1: win to stay alive. What do you think?

1558
01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:36,639
Speaker 2: Well, we know the Blazers are the favorites. How fat

1559
01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:42,200
Speaker 2: is that thing. Ah, I think it's higher than I

1560
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:44,880
Speaker 2: think a lot of people. Listen, there's four of us

1561
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:47,840
Speaker 2: right here. We all expect the Blazers to win. They've

1562
01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:49,679
Speaker 2: got to set a line to get money on both

1563
01:11:49,720 --> 01:11:53,320
Speaker 2: sides and to understand and to you know, predict the

1564
01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:55,400
Speaker 2: game somewhat. So I think it's gonna be Faturday.

1565
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:56,519
Speaker 3: I'd say four and a half.

1566
01:11:56,720 --> 01:12:00,280
Speaker 1: Oh, it's exactly what I'm thinking it's gonna be. Yeah,

1567
01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:02,040
Speaker 1: I was. I thought you might go a little higher,

1568
01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 1: thought you might go that.

1569
01:12:03,320 --> 01:12:04,840
Speaker 4: I think it's a little tighter than that. I think

1570
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:08,000
Speaker 4: it's tighter. Yeah, I think this.

1571
01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:09,080
Speaker 1: Is like a Super Bowl.

1572
01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:11,439
Speaker 4: Let's get on the line.

1573
01:12:12,360 --> 01:12:15,120
Speaker 1: Sure, you guys want to do another hour, get cam on,

1574
01:12:15,200 --> 01:12:20,680
Speaker 1: talk some horses over the whatever it is.

1575
01:12:20,840 --> 01:12:22,559
Speaker 3: There's a lot of points in this game.

1576
01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:25,240
Speaker 1: All right, So we're gonna wait to see what the

1577
01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:28,000
Speaker 1: line is for Saturday's Mega Ball. I can't believe how

1578
01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:31,160
Speaker 1: sweet is this. It's ending with us actually picking the

1579
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:34,120
Speaker 1: Mega Bowl game. I mean, we coined the term megabole

1580
01:12:34,200 --> 01:12:36,160
Speaker 1: for it, well, semi pro did, but we took it

1581
01:12:36,160 --> 01:12:37,880
Speaker 1: from that and threw it on this game, and that

1582
01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:40,000
Speaker 1: will be the game that will ultimately decide We've never

1583
01:12:40,120 --> 01:12:42,080
Speaker 1: been all tied right at the end of a month.

1584
01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:44,680
Speaker 1: We've had a couple of guys tied, but no way,

1585
01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:51,040
Speaker 1: we've had all four exact same record, crazy, crazy times,

1586
01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:56,599
Speaker 1: crazy podcasts, crazy bubble wrap run here, JD unbelievable work,

1587
01:12:56,680 --> 01:12:59,040
Speaker 1: my man, hats off to you, and we're if we're

1588
01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:01,920
Speaker 1: clapping for the spur streak, I'm clapping for JD's streak.

1589
01:13:01,960 --> 01:13:03,760
Speaker 1: We can stand up super earlate here and getting up

1590
01:13:03,760 --> 01:13:06,640
Speaker 1: these podcasts. Guys. Check out the brand new shirt we

1591
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:09,639
Speaker 1: dropped at No dunks dot com. Subscribe to No Dunks

1592
01:13:09,640 --> 01:13:11,840
Speaker 1: on YouTube. Just because the bubble rap might be done

1593
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:15,400
Speaker 1: doesn't mean the YouTube videos and maybe even the live

1594
01:13:15,479 --> 01:13:18,280
Speaker 1: YouTube videos doesn't mean they're done. No, no, no, So

1595
01:13:18,439 --> 01:13:21,559
Speaker 1: make sure you like and subscribe and hit that little

1596
01:13:21,560 --> 01:13:23,880
Speaker 1: notification for the now dunks YouTube page. And if you

1597
01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:26,400
Speaker 1: listen to the podcast on iTunes, keep leaving your boys

1598
01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:30,880
Speaker 1: a sweet five star rating and review the schedule. It's

1599
01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 1: like this, guys, Friday tomorrow, We're not gonna worry about

1600
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:37,120
Speaker 1: these games that are on. Yeah, they're still playing down there.

1601
01:13:37,640 --> 01:13:41,439
Speaker 1: We're gonna record our Eastern Conference playoff preview podcasts. We'll

1602
01:13:41,479 --> 01:13:44,000
Speaker 1: have that up for you on Friday. On Saturday, we're

1603
01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:46,599
Speaker 1: gonna take the day off, first day off in it'll

1604
01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:49,160
Speaker 1: be like sixteen days to enjoy the Mega Bowl. We're

1605
01:13:49,160 --> 01:13:50,920
Speaker 1: gonna watch it. We'll make sure we get our picks

1606
01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:54,000
Speaker 1: up on it across all social media platforms, and then

1607
01:13:54,040 --> 01:13:55,599
Speaker 1: we'll see if they need a second game. We'll see

1608
01:13:55,640 --> 01:13:58,640
Speaker 1: what happens. We will have a bonus popping packs for you,

1609
01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:00,840
Speaker 1: hopefully lead you will have. But man, you're supposed to

1610
01:14:00,840 --> 01:14:02,800
Speaker 1: record with Derek Harper today it got pushed back at

1611
01:14:02,800 --> 01:14:03,519
Speaker 1: the ears on the lab.

1612
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:08,519
Speaker 4: Pepe's got Pepeede. Yeah, so tomorrow we're happening two o'clock Easton.

1613
01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:11,599
Speaker 4: Spoke to Derek today. I had a game. He said,

1614
01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:13,559
Speaker 4: you know what, I'm just a little tight before game time.

1615
01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:15,639
Speaker 4: Can we do it tomorrow? Said the hop of course,

1616
01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:18,120
Speaker 4: my man, anytime. You're already all right?

1617
01:14:18,240 --> 01:14:20,640
Speaker 1: All right, So that will hopefully have We'll have that

1618
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:23,360
Speaker 1: live on Instagram tomorrow and then we'll hopefully twist that around,

1619
01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:25,880
Speaker 1: throw it around and throw it. What am I trying

1620
01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:28,120
Speaker 1: to say? Twist it and throw it. We'll make a

1621
01:14:28,160 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 1: little pizza. Now, we'll make a little pizza out of

1622
01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:32,240
Speaker 1: this thing. I'll slap a little sauce on it. We'll

1623
01:14:32,280 --> 01:14:33,600
Speaker 1: throw that popping packs.

1624
01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:41,200
Speaker 2: Up, twist that double play.

1625
01:14:41,320 --> 01:14:43,680
Speaker 1: Then on Sunday, we're going to record and drop our

1626
01:14:43,760 --> 01:14:47,040
Speaker 1: Western Conference playoff preview. All right, did you follow that

1627
01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:49,800
Speaker 1: couple preview podcasts of popping packs that may or may

1628
01:14:49,840 --> 01:14:52,600
Speaker 1: not happen? And that's it. Game one of the playoffs

1629
01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:59,000
Speaker 1: start Monday, August seventeenth, first game Utah at Denver, one

1630
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:01,320
Speaker 1: thirty East start. Yeah, we're waiting to see what the

1631
01:15:01,320 --> 01:15:03,040
Speaker 1: schedule is gonna be, like, we'll be playing games all

1632
01:15:03,120 --> 01:15:05,600
Speaker 1: day again, guys, it's gonna be like, uh, you know,

1633
01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:08,559
Speaker 1: the one thirty three, thirty six, thirty nine type thing.

1634
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:12,719
Speaker 1: So we're gonna figure out our playoff podcast recording schedule.

1635
01:15:12,760 --> 01:15:17,160
Speaker 1: But that's when the games start. I mean, I almost

1636
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:20,040
Speaker 1: hope that the Blazers beat the Grizzlies on Saturday, so

1637
01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:24,800
Speaker 1: there's one day without basketball. Just one day would be

1638
01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:28,800
Speaker 1: nice where nothing is happening. But hey, who cares if

1639
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:30,000
Speaker 1: it's a game a.

1640
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:32,799
Speaker 2: Four to thirty start on Sunday as well. I didn't

1641
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:35,920
Speaker 2: see that coming. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's nowhere.

1642
01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:38,720
Speaker 1: That second where crazy crazy, all right, So let's call

1643
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:40,439
Speaker 1: it there. That's the end of bubble Wrap. These has

1644
01:15:40,479 --> 01:15:41,840
Speaker 1: been a lot of fun. Thank you so much for

1645
01:15:41,920 --> 01:15:44,000
Speaker 1: joining us live on YouTube, and of course for downloading

1646
01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:45,960
Speaker 1: and listening to the podcast. And we're not going anywhere.

1647
01:15:46,200 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 1: Keep your eyes and ears out for that playoff preview podcast,

1648
01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:50,880
Speaker 1: both of them. Clipper Bros.

1649
01:15:51,240 --> 01:15:53,720
Speaker 3: You heard it here first. Have a great time, turn up.

1650
01:15:53,880 --> 01:15:55,160
Speaker 3: Love you guys awesome.

1651
01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:58,479
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us. And remember, if you're not watching us,

1652
01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:01,200
Speaker 2: you won't get this joke. But that's okay, that's that's

1653
01:16:01,240 --> 01:16:05,720
Speaker 2: totally fine. Justin Reyes said, relax on your bed of

1654
01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:08,759
Speaker 2: roses their skeets, because Skeets is wearing a shirt with roses,

1655
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:11,200
Speaker 2: got a bed behind him. I have a great sleep

1656
01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:12,679
Speaker 2: on that bed of roses, their sets.

1657
01:16:12,800 --> 01:16:19,320
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna go sleep on it. Embrace the night, people, you.

1658
01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:20,040
Speaker 4: Could say.

1659
01:16:21,800 --> 01:16:22,759
Speaker 1: Every day.

1660
01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:27,839
Speaker 2: And Aggie happy every minute.

1661
01:16:29,720 --> 01:16:33,360
Speaker 1: It's been so long that your no wanna waiting for.

1662
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:39,240
Speaker 2: It's happened already. It's gonna be grevy