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Speaker 1: Good day, sweet world. It's Wednesday, September eleventh, twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: and this is another edition of The Free Agent's podcast.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in. I'm Jay Skeets and alongside me

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Speaker 1: today for this I Guess a little emergency mini podcast.

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Speaker 1: We got the Bearded one, Trey Kirby. Hey, hey, oh,

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Speaker 1: the international man of mystery.

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Speaker 2: Lelis yannay, guys, how I am beautiful day it is?

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Speaker 1: Can you tell who's the American and who's the Australian?

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Speaker 1: Here and finally making all this magic happen live from

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Speaker 1: his basement, JD. Hello, there he is and here we are.

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Speaker 1: JD and I no dog left in this race. We

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Speaker 1: finished twenty first overall. Obay, no tasks either. The Greek

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Speaker 1: and he's still over in Israel, enjoying the salads, enjoying

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Speaker 1: the weather. I'm sure having a blast. I believe you

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Speaker 1: said it home this weekend. It's been there for a

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Speaker 1: while taking it.

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Speaker 3: It's been a minute.

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Speaker 1: See having a blast over their family vacation. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: we had to do this little emergency podcast today because

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Speaker 1: Zuta Lore. Earlier today, France defeated Team USA eighty nine

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Speaker 1: to seventy nine in the world Cup quarterfinals, snapping the

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Speaker 1: United States fifty eight game winning streak in international tournaments

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Speaker 1: with NBA players on the roster. Very entertaining game earlier

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Speaker 1: this morning here on Wednesday, Team USA, they had a

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Speaker 1: seven point lead. You know, France sort of dominated this

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Speaker 1: game for good chunk of it. But then TMUSA had

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Speaker 1: a seven point lead with about eight minutes to go

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Speaker 1: over France, and that is when the French just sort

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Speaker 1: of caught fire and really shut down. Tm USA went

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Speaker 1: on like a twenty two to five run and get

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Speaker 1: the win. I was gonna say short of shocked the world.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's fair, because we saw the writing

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Speaker 1: was on the wall in the you know, lost to

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Speaker 1: Australia obviously in the exhibition play and then the close

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Speaker 1: one against Turkey. You know, it felt like it was

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Speaker 1: potential that they were gonna lose tm USA, but maybe

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Speaker 1: not to France here. Maybe that was a bit of

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Speaker 1: a shock though. Test was calling it early on. I

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Speaker 1: remember when we were sitting down at the day have.

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Speaker 3: Some trouble with France, that's right, didn't you know?

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Speaker 1: Said yeah, I know, I was gonna tweet them that, like,

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Speaker 1: oh convenient you left out the one percent, But he

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Speaker 1: did say that the potential of France meeting up really

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Speaker 1: with t USA and then come giving them a battle,

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Speaker 1: and they did, uh, you know, a great game from

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Speaker 1: a lot of their guys. But yes, as the American here, Trey,

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Speaker 1: how disappointed are you in Tmusa falling here and out?

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Speaker 1: They are now eliminated from you know, any sort of

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Speaker 3: It reminds me of a line from Home Alone. You're

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Speaker 3: what the French call lest What are you idiots doing?

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Speaker 3: You fools who going to China and blowing it? You

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Speaker 3: didn't even make it to the semi finals. You didn't

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Speaker 3: make it to the finals. You lost to a France team.

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Speaker 3: The United States has.

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Speaker 1: Never lost to France. That's right over nine.

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Speaker 3: Nine coming into this and honestly just disappointing, infuriating. As

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Speaker 3: it went down the stretch, it was like everything wrong

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Speaker 3: with the past era of USA basketball. Look like just

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Speaker 3: we're going to try on one on one every single time.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna try and beat their best player one on

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Speaker 3: one at the rim every single time. It didn't work

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Speaker 3: a lot in the second half, except for maybe a

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Speaker 3: ten minute stretch there. It just looked like, you know,

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Speaker 3: back when the US was losing in the beginning of

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Speaker 3: the two thousands, when they would just keep trying the

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Speaker 3: same thing over and over over and over over and over,

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Speaker 3: not playing together as a team. Just like I'm a

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Speaker 3: United States player, I can go out there and win

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Speaker 3: this game for US. No, I'm a United States player,

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Speaker 3: I can win this game for US. It clearly didn't

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Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it as as they were blowing that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Americans came up scoreless on six consecutive possessions there

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Speaker 2: There's been a couple of times in this tournament where

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Speaker 2: pull away. And when they built that lead, it felt

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Speaker 2: the same. Yeah, it felt like, Okay, they're probably gonna

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Speaker 1: It went small exactly.

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Speaker 3: Well, the main thing is that the French Jared Allen

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Speaker 3: the main reason they went on the run, because, yeah,

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Speaker 3: the small ball was working when the huge, awesome, giant

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but then Rudy at both ends, they just had

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Speaker 2: I think Jalon Brown was defending him at one point.

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Speaker 2: You just need to get the ball into him, and

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Speaker 2: he was able to muscle him out the way. Really

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Speaker 2: really good performance. Evan Fournier was also incredible for them.

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Speaker 2: These guys are just they just looked more like a team.

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Speaker 2: You know, you mentioned it. There trade a lot of ice,

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Speaker 2: so a lot of you know, we think we can

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Speaker 2: just sort of school yard these guys, but these French

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Speaker 2: I think you could tell they didn't they didn't panic

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Speaker 2: Frankie hit a couple of big threes there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the game of his life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and some of those shots, I mean looking back,

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Speaker 2: again America were vulnerable in this tournament, and today that'd

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because we kept talking about like they're trying to

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Speaker 1: Kemba Walker a brutal, brutal performance, you know, and end

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Speaker 1: down the stretch, you know, getting block, missing free throws,

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Speaker 1: but you're right credit to France. I know Pop wants

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Speaker 1: to what these guys did. Go Bear twenty one, sixteen

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Speaker 1: Trey huge, fournieright awesome twenty two and then Neila Keina,

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Speaker 1: you're right, he hit those two like clutch shots. He

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Speaker 1: And then that one the shot clock expiring over Kemba

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Speaker 1: and he had a great game, and he's gonna always

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Speaker 1: give you a great defense. But they were getting enough

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Speaker 3: Frankie Nails. You know, we shouldn't be smoking, so Frankie

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Speaker 3: Nails is what I think he should be called now

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Speaker 3: after those a couple of massive shots. But when you

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Speaker 3: see USA on the chest, you know you're gonna be

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Speaker 3: getting the best effort from the other team. That's happened

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Speaker 3: against Turkey. Osmond had a great game, Furkan Korkmaz. Everybody

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Speaker 3: with the way France was because you know, Nando to

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Speaker 3: was incredible too. The right guys showed up when they

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Speaker 3: needed to. They played to their strengths. The United States

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Speaker 3: It was defense. They were the best defense in the

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Speaker 3: group stage. They didn't quite play fast enough, I don't think,

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Speaker 3: that took a little bit of an adjustment. But if

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Speaker 3: That was clearly the case for the United States. Played

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Speaker 1: I think you know one thing again about France, they

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Speaker 1: they've gone through to the cornfiles and Argentina like with Scola,

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Speaker 1: nine yes, TSA. But remember they played them very very

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Speaker 1: close in the twenty sixteen Olympics. And some of those

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Speaker 1: You know, Tim say, yeah, they pulled it out, but

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Speaker 1: that's a that's a tight, tight win. It is a

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Speaker 1: good squad and well coached, and you're right bringing the

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Speaker 2: Brook Lopez basically didn't do anything in this tournament, but

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Speaker 2: he just not equipped for the for the fever game really,

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Speaker 2: and he's like.

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Speaker 1: Two or fourteen, I think from three in the tournament.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: It might have been good to have another guy who

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Speaker 3: was seven feet tall out there with Rudy Gobert running wild.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know why, Pop just I

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Speaker 2: guess he just had no confidence to because my Turner

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Speaker 1: So Myles Turner got his ass handed to him. No, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I love Myles Turner. Yeah, when he got his ass handed.

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Speaker 2: Remember Myles Turner was in contention for defensive player the year,

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Speaker 2: but he had he could not handle Rudy at all today.

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Speaker 2: He was not a good body defender, the post defender.

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Speaker 2: He was just way out of his depth. And Rudy,

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Speaker 2: I mean Rudy was up for it. And when they

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Speaker 2: They really did out smart the US after the US

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Speaker 2: made that strong run. Yeah, and I mean it was

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Speaker 2: it was pretty cool to see France play so well.

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Speaker 2: I mean a lot of other teams would have crumbled

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Speaker 2: when the US might that you know, sort of put

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Speaker 2: their foot on the gas and tried to pull away.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. The bigs for the States, what bigs? Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: Miles Turner, you talked about him, Brook Lopez, he went

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Speaker 1: in there, he shot some threes, he missed him and

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Speaker 1: that I was it for him. And then plumbly, I

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Speaker 1: don't know why he's on the roster I made.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't make any everyone else well, yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: Guess left standing there. I bet they're like another Jersey here. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No one else seemed to have anything going offensively

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Speaker 1: Does this World Cup change you think? We have couple

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Speaker 3: do Well, No, they get some more players, you know,

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Speaker 3: This is the first game that has been on linear TV.

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Speaker 3: Probably not. The only time the World Cup is popular

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, Lebron has sort of said he

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Speaker 2: I mean that would be huge. That would be a

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Speaker 2: because that happened in two thousand and four, but that

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Speaker 2: I think I can't remember four the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but didn't Yeah, Iverson played, Duncan play, Stefan

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Speaker 1: Didn't have Yeah, getting greedy at that point. Yeah there

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Speaker 2: For sure, sure to Greece, gree something that was two

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Speaker 2: thousand and six. Argentina, that's great, Yeah because Argentina, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Know, if Lebron comes back and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: So at the World Cup, and you know, Jerry Clangelo,

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Speaker 2: I don't you know, I want to take my summer

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Yeah, it is a it's

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Speaker 3: Clearly it matters. The games are different and playing together

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Speaker 1: That's the big deal. Here's how you make the World

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Speaker 3: Right, yeah, And that wouldn't be totally different than soccer,

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Speaker 2: Rules supposed to be on to twenty threes. I think

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Speaker 1: But no doubt. The World Cup, well, or.

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Speaker 2: And that's the thing, you know, Olympic basketball is still

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Speaker 3: Else, no doubt. I don't see how you're going to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the three on three is interesting as well, because

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Speaker 2: after one on two Olympics anyway, maybe they'll try two

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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 2: People don't want to go up and say, well we

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

435
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Speaker 3: I don't know. Le think back to the new season

436
00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:29,320
Speaker 3: required tour. We didn't know you very well. We went

437
00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:30,840
Speaker 3: on the road for a month. We came back. All

438
00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,400
Speaker 3: of us were best friends. It's true they've been together

439
00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,080
Speaker 3: a month. They should know how to hang out together.

440
00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:36,600
Speaker 1: No, no, that they do.

441
00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:38,840
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying that that Greg Popovich.

442
00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,240
Speaker 3: Was famous for getting more out of less. He was

443
00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:44,280
Speaker 3: the guy who is mister chemistry. He's getting everybody books,

444
00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:48,720
Speaker 3: He's giving you restaurant recommendation. You would like. The guy

445
00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,160
Speaker 3: is supposed to be a genius at literally getting more

446
00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:52,960
Speaker 3: out of less. And every time he coached his team,

447
00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:54,000
Speaker 3: say they lose.

448
00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,159
Speaker 2: Did you see I think it was Tatum and no,

449
00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:58,159
Speaker 2: it was a Jalen Brown and Donovan Mitchell went out

450
00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:00,280
Speaker 2: for that lobster the other night, and the love that

451
00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:02,159
Speaker 2: I went to some restaurant that loves his like was

452
00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:04,920
Speaker 2: still alive and I freaked out. It's awesome, man, I

453
00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:09,240
Speaker 2: gotta check it out. I were bunding. I mean, maybe

454
00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:11,480
Speaker 2: there's too much love stuff, I think.

455
00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The other the other thing, Trey, you

456
00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,840
Speaker 1: had said, like if this was some people's first team

457
00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,800
Speaker 1: USA game here at World Championships because they were catching

458
00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,680
Speaker 1: it on ESPN two instead of the ESPN Plus platform,

459
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Speaker 1: like we've been watching all them, or like some of the

460
00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:26,840
Speaker 1: people have you had TIBs on the call. Boy, what

461
00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,760
Speaker 1: the hell? Who made that decision? Who at ESPN made

462
00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:35,000
Speaker 1: that decision to put TIBs on the call at seven

463
00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:36,800
Speaker 1: in the morning. I think he was in connect Or,

464
00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:38,919
Speaker 1: you know, they're doing it maybe from Bristolana where he

465
00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:43,439
Speaker 1: was exactly, but he sounded asleep. Yeah, and you have

466
00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:47,120
Speaker 1: the international guys calling the game awesome, and they're awesome

467
00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:51,320
Speaker 1: because they actually know the other teams and they they've

468
00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,080
Speaker 1: they've been following the tournament. They're there. That sure helps

469
00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,159
Speaker 1: you get the atmosphere of the crowd like it was.

470
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Speaker 1: It was like a morgue because of the like they're

471
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Speaker 1: calling the game from a studio here in the States.

472
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Speaker 3: It was very weird. I guess Thams has the Team

473
00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,200
Speaker 3: USA pedigree. You know, he was there for some gold

474
00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:08,960
Speaker 3: medals back in the day, so I guess he gets

475
00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,400
Speaker 3: the call. But uh, I don't know. If you got

476
00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,920
Speaker 3: to go with an American who has Team USA experience,

477
00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:15,879
Speaker 3: give me Doug Collins. At least he's got like an

478
00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,680
Speaker 3: excitable voice. Ten was hitting that low register all morning.

479
00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:23,359
Speaker 1: Great defense strategy, get back on defense. Nice play there,

480
00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,000
Speaker 1: nice play. Yeah, it was really a nice box over there,

481
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,240
Speaker 1: really good bos what like Nora was like, who is?

482
00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:29,639
Speaker 1: What is?

483
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Speaker 3: Yeah? He sounded sold. I was like, okay, I can

484
00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,520
Speaker 3: see why this guy hasn't maybe gotten the top call

485
00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,320
Speaker 3: uh for a while. After just hearing him not be

486
00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:42,960
Speaker 3: excited at all, I tweeted that it.

487
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,480
Speaker 1: Sounded like he was calling the game wearing an old

488
00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:49,679
Speaker 1: timey like nightcap, like a pajama nightcap, like holding a candle.

489
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, like maybe he was.

490
00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,080
Speaker 1: I mean it was early, but.

491
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Speaker 3: Come on, my goodness, it's just.

492
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:05,800
Speaker 1: No, no, you're right. Yeah, maybe we should have said that.

493
00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,080
Speaker 1: So the last coming right away when on the collar,

494
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,400
Speaker 1: the energy was was little. But again I don't want

495
00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:13,719
Speaker 1: to take like it'll be interesting to see who plays

496
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,199
Speaker 1: for sure in twenty twenty for team to day and

497
00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:21,800
Speaker 1: does that start with like a Lebron Like if Lebron says, hey,

498
00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,360
Speaker 1: I'm going, does the rest of the guys all line up,

499
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,320
Speaker 1: they say, okay, well we're going to.

500
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Speaker 2: You would think so?

501
00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:28,480
Speaker 1: You think so it's.

502
00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,880
Speaker 2: Because it's a bit will be Lebron's last international as well,

503
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Speaker 2: I would say he's going to be thirty five, nearly

504
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:34,640
Speaker 2: thirty six. I doubt he's going to a World Cup

505
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,680
Speaker 2: after that. He wants to sort of finish on a

506
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:37,560
Speaker 2: gold medal Olympic.

507
00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:41,800
Speaker 1: It'd be chasing uh Caromelo's record was the only one

508
00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:42,800
Speaker 1: with three goals.

509
00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, nah, why Lebron got the bronze in No, Ford

510
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,000
Speaker 2: didn't he in eight and twelve and then that was it. Yeah,

511
00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:51,800
Speaker 2: it's good though. It's good I mean because if the

512
00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 2: US had gone on and won this tournament, it probably

513
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,960
Speaker 2: wouldn't have reflected well on world basketball. The fact that

514
00:21:58,160 --> 00:21:59,920
Speaker 2: this team people are saying this is the worst time

515
00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,560
Speaker 2: and they still win. So it's good that they get

516
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 2: knocked out in that respect.

517
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Speaker 1: I think it's a little disappointing maybe where it happened, Yes,

518
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 1: I think it would have been a lot. Yes, let's

519
00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 1: say in a gold medal game, even a semi final.

520
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 2: Yes, definitely.

521
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 1: Don't know why, you know, because more.

522
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 3: Of like what a disaster for the United States when

523
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,000
Speaker 3: it happens before the championship game, yes, rather than what

524
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,760
Speaker 3: a triumph for France if they were to do this

525
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:25,600
Speaker 3: to win the gold medal. You finally beat the US

526
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:27,440
Speaker 3: to win the gold medal, that's an even bigger story

527
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,920
Speaker 3: because now it's more like what.

528
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:30,119
Speaker 2: Are you doing?

529
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 3: You guys are a disaster. How is it is ever

530
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 3: going to get better? Are we going to get Lebron back?

531
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:35,280
Speaker 3: We need better because the O four Olympics. If we

532
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:36,920
Speaker 3: have this right, I know it's tough to keep try.

533
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Speaker 3: That was in group play.

534
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Speaker 1: They were losing. They got hammered by Porto Rico.

535
00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,920
Speaker 3: They got hammered Carlos Oroyo.

536
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I didn't was that. I thought that was

537
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,400
Speaker 2: a pre tuneament again, No, that's that is in the Olympics.

538
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 1: Right then they lost to Lithuania. There was three and two.

539
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,680
Speaker 1: I remember going out of group play and then they

540
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:55,879
Speaker 1: lost who you said it? I think before that was

541
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Speaker 1: the Argentina one.

542
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, Argentina won the gold.

543
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Speaker 1: I can't remember who knocking off though. Uh, you're sure

544
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:01,760
Speaker 1: Argentina won that.

545
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 2: Gol pretty sure because man, who's got a goal better?

546
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 1: But this has this has happened before, and they had

547
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,960
Speaker 1: NBA players. It was an NBA rist but Larry Brown, Yeah,

548
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 1: it was an assistant.

549
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 2: Yeah. That's the thing with France. They could still end

550
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:17,360
Speaker 2: up medalists themselves, which is if because if they lose

551
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,880
Speaker 2: their next game and they lose after.

552
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 1: That, Golbert was talking about in the press, this is

553
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,119
Speaker 1: great we beat America, right, that's awesome, that's a huge win.

554
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,360
Speaker 2: But if they don't, that's exactly right. If they don't

555
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:30,159
Speaker 2: win the gold after beating American, then that's going to

556
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 2: be a bit of a disappointment for them.

557
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,160
Speaker 1: Well we have now in the semi finals. It's Argentina

558
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 1: versus France and then it's Spain versus Australia. Who got

559
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,920
Speaker 1: the win today? Uh checks put them a nice fight

560
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 1: for a little bit and then Australia pulled away. Who's

561
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,400
Speaker 1: the favorite now? I mean that's tough.

562
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 2: Those I've got Argentina as the favorite. They've just really Yeah,

563
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 2: they've just been looking so good and they handled Serbia,

564
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 2: although Serbia. This time last week I had Serbia to.

565
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Speaker 1: Win it, and now we're going to get Serbia. But

566
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,160
Speaker 1: they're going to be playing like for fifth spot. Yeah

567
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 1: it is because they played tomorrow.

568
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 2: But I mean they handled Serbia so easily, so you go.

569
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously I'm going for Australia, but I just

570
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:17,680
Speaker 2: wonder if we've we're you for a bad game. Yeah,

571
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,720
Speaker 2: Annie Mills is due to miss a shot at some point,

572
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 2: you know, a clap shot. I don't know, probably won't happen, but.

573
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 1: Probably Michael Jordan when he puts on the Green and gold.

574
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,439
Speaker 2: I tweeted out one of his players at the end,

575
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 2: this steps oh man, Patty's just feeling it right now.

576
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 2: Se him start to get six threes again today. I mean,

577
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,120
Speaker 2: he's just looking incredible.

578
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 3: He's killing.

579
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

580
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: I should think Jordan literally looks like Steph Curry. He's

581
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 1: like turned into Steph Curry when he puts on the

582
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 1: Green and gold. Okay, yeah, so you're obviously cheering for

583
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 1: Australia and they could win. I think any four of

584
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:50,360
Speaker 1: these teams could win for sure.

585
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 3: You can talk yourself in and any of them, like

586
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 3: Skula has been on a roll, Like can he keep

587
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 3: it up? I wouldn't be surprised now that I've seen

588
00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 3: him with his lightly graying hair, got another new haircut.

589
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 3: He's killing, He's been great. They could win. France obviously

590
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 3: looked incredible against the United States. Do they have a

591
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 3: letdown after winning the biggest game of their lives? Maybe?

592
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,199
Speaker 3: I don't know. Australia, like we've said, has been on

593
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,640
Speaker 3: a roll. They beat the United States, they could keep

594
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 3: rolling through the gold medal. But I think Spain's yeah,

595
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know. These guys have been in

596
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 3: every final. It seems like it's the same guys that

597
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 3: have been playing forever and ever and ever. We were

598
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 3: down one Gasol and we've added two. Hernan Gomez is

599
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 3: that's about the only thing that has changed since two

600
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 3: thousand and eight. That's a that's a savvy team right there,

601
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:31,920
Speaker 3: but there's a lot of savvy around.

602
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 1: We already have eight of the twelve teams, by the way,

603
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: headed to Tokyo for the twenty twenty Olympics are finalized.

604
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 1: The States are one of them. I guess, I guess

605
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 1: that should be slipped in here. They are going to

606
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: the Olympics. They've they've qualified for that. Them and Argentina

607
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,119
Speaker 1: are the two teams from the Americas that are already

608
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 1: in Spain and France. From the europe Zone, they're already

609
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 1: in Australia. Of course, Nigeria, Iran, Japan as the hosts,

610
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 1: and so there'll be four spots. That's it left through

611
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 1: all these Olympic qualifying tournaments with there's going to be

612
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 1: some you know, heavy hitters still in Serbia, Canada. If

613
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,880
Speaker 1: they get NBA player play Lavinia, you go on and

614
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,400
Speaker 1: a million more so it's going to be not easy

615
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,439
Speaker 1: to get in there for for anyone really to a

616
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 1: Turkey of course in the in the mix and stuff

617
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 1: like that.

618
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 2: And that'll be interesting to see if the fewer teams

619
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 2: does make for a better tournament. As we talked about

620
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,760
Speaker 2: last week that there's there was too many teams in

621
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 2: this tournament. Maybe there's going to be too few in

622
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 2: the Olympics, but I think you're going to have a

623
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 2: higher quality, which should make for an awesome tournament.

624
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: You want to, oh boy, you want to go to Tokyo. Fine,

625
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: is there an NBA NBA Japan that you can do

626
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:45,120
Speaker 1: some work for.

627
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 3: Japanese? I don't know.

628
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:51,359
Speaker 1: I'll put in a few calls.

629
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 3: Maybe we won't go. We may have a job.

630
00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's sort of important. Let's get the job. Don't

631
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: worry about whether you're gonna be covering the twenty twenty Olympics,

632
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 1: all right, h anything else sort of from this game

633
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 1: or from this tournament. You're going Spain, you You're you

634
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: gotta go. I'm going. I'm going Australia. I'm going Australia.

635
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: This run right now, the way Patty's playing, the way

636
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: Ingles is playing with Banes Bainsy kids suddenly Steph Curry.

637
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 2: Yeah he'll fly. Yeah the other night.

638
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 3: They're on fire right now. Be great to have Aaron

639
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 3: Baines on the TV USA. Like Aaron Baines would be

640
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 3: no doubt the best big man they have, at least

641
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 3: for this tournament.

642
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,880
Speaker 2: I'm just trying not to get too excited because it's

643
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 2: it's there for Australia. It's absolutely implay. But I'm like, oh, man,

644
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 2: if we walk away with the boss will gold medal,

645
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 2: that'd be just unbelievable.

646
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 1: After you, Basil, you know you went and like you

647
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:44,920
Speaker 1: just sort of like being around them inspired them.

648
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,440
Speaker 2: I think, well, probably maybe I'll get a gold medal,

649
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 2: Like did they get a champion?

650
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 3: Guys, I've been there on the ground with them. They beatable,

651
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 3: They're beautiful, you can do it. They're like, all right,

652
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:57,360
Speaker 3: back cut on here, all right, well, let's.

653
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: Uh, let's sort of start wrapping this up with all

654
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 1: the little top five here, top five, top.

655
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 3: Five, top five, top five, top five, top rave.

656
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,959
Speaker 1: Top All right, what do you got top five? I

657
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: assume it's got a phoeba slash USA angle to it.

658
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 3: These are the top five people to blame for today's

659
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 3: Team USA loss at number five. We already touched on

660
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 3: it earlier. Tom Thibodeaux, Oh yeah, wow, he only gets

661
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 3: one game and he gets blamed for the loss. Yeah,

662
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,719
Speaker 3: that's tough, man. You know, this is a big competition.

663
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 3: You got to bring a big voice. The man was

664
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 3: falling asleep at the broadcast table. How is anybody supposed

665
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 3: to get hyped up? I know that the Team USA

666
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 3: probably wasn't watching the broadcast, so they didn't know that

667
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 3: Tom wasn't excited. Nonetheless, bad do you have to start?

668
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 2: Do you think that because he's got such a powerful

669
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 2: voice that they said to him, listen, we want you

670
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 2: to commentate, but not coach, right, you're not a coach.

671
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 3: Don't yell ya exactly.

672
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 2: So he was like, he was like, what I can't

673
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 2: you know, like, you know, I can't call at any place? No,

674
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 2: just call the game. And he went, oh okay, I

675
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 2: can't do that.

676
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 3: Well for a man obsessed with practice and pushing yourself

677
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 3: to the limits, his limit was quite low today. At

678
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 3: number four, controversial Donald Trump, WHOA Okay? All I know

679
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 3: is that the last four USA losses have come with

680
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 3: Republican presidents. In the White House. Whoa wow, two, four, six,

681
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 3: George W twenty nineteen, Australia. Yeah, and now France Donald Trump. Wow.

682
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 3: In fact, of all the United States losses in history,

683
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 3: only nineteen fifty and nineteen ninety eight was a Democratic

684
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 3: president in the White House. Amazing. I'm just saying, I'm

685
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 3: not taking sides.

686
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 2: I'm just saying I'll take sides.

687
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: Obomba was a bulla. I mean he was USA.

688
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 3: It wasn't losing with Obama, There's no doubt about it.

689
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: Exactly.

690
00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 3: At number three the Boston Celtics. Yeah, a mini ranking

691
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 3: of people to blame. Jason Tatum.

692
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 1: You were hurt.

693
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 3: Not much you could do about it, but you weren't

694
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 3: doing anything about it because you were hurt. That's tough.

695
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 3: Number three on the blame list, Jalen Brown. He missed

696
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 3: the layup late in the game. It was a tough shot.

697
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have taken it. But he was instrumental in

698
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 3: getting back in the game in the third quarter. Same

699
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 3: with Marcus Smart, but he gets a little bit more

700
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 3: blame because he missed four straight free throws in the

701
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 3: fourth quarter.

702
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 1: Yeah.

703
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 3: Nonetheless, Brown and Smart were two of the better players

704
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 3: on the court for Team USA. Worst player on the

705
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 3: court for Team USA today Kemba Walker terrible.

706
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: Yeah.

707
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 3: Two of nine, no three pointers, four turnovers, zero assists,

708
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 3: ball hog in the fourth quarter, missed two of three

709
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 3: free throws, and had a back court violation in the

710
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 3: final five minutes. So warm, and this was the guy

711
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 3: that we're like, if there's somebody you want taking the shot,

712
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 3: it's Kemba Walker. I guess he thought so too. Might

713
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 3: have been good to give it to Donovan Mitchell, who

714
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 3: was destroying twenty nine points through three quarters, zero in

715
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter because Kenba just wanted to keep dribbling.

716
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 3: Saw this on Reddit. US was down ten when Kemba

717
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 3: Walker got subbed out early in the third, up seven

718
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 3: when he came back, lost by ten.

719
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 1: That's tough, But does it change your opinions on the Celtics.

720
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 3: Celtics or trash? Everybody knows, right, Thank you Number two

721
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 3: biggest person to blame of everyone there, Greg Popovich.

722
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, come on, get those hot takes,

723
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: get your Popovich ker merch Popovich curR twenty twenty, throw

724
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: it in the trash and burn it. I think I

725
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: was drinking from a from a pop curve twenty twenty minus.

726
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 3: You threw it off your balcony. I know you get

727
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 3: chuck it out there, get it to the parking lot,

728
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 3: shatter some glass. No offense, Jay, it'll be a little

729
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 3: bit of a clean up. But nonetheless, no bigs against

730
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 3: Rudy Gobert for an entire half. Harrison Barnes was your

731
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 3: big guy for an entire half. I understand you made

732
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 3: a comeback playing small ball, but then they put back

733
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 3: in Rudy Gobert. You gotta change something. Something else has

734
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 3: to change, and it shouldn't be putting back in Kemba

735
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 3: Walker and having him take every shot. Why did Joe

736
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 3: Harris play so much Middleton? I know he was broke,

737
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 3: but Chris Middleton at least got some rebounds. He got

738
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 3: five rebounds in eighteen minutes.

739
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 2: Joe Harrison's theory is the good fever player. Go oh

740
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 2: he you can just knock down those threes a little

741
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 2: bit shorter.

742
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 3: Okay, pop getting some blame, a lot of blame. Yeah,

743
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 3: if you asked me, he didn't adjust. That wasn't a

744
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 3: spursy looking team. Every other team that the United States

745
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 3: played had battle ball movement. In the United States, Greg Popovich,

746
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 3: Steve Kerr. Don't you guys like passing? I thought so?

747
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 3: But number one to blame for this loss? Clearly it's

748
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 3: the guys who didn't plan. I'll give you two in particular. Okay,

749
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 3: Blake Griffin number one. What's he doing the most of

750
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 3: Caitlyn jennerally? Yeah?

751
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah right.

752
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 3: He got off a great joke, very funny, got a

753
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 3: lot of tweets, got a lot of likes. He could

754
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 3: have been the star of this team. He had a

755
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 3: pretty decent season for the Pistons. He really changed the

756
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 3: perception of him around the league.

757
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 2: He did end with an injury. I will just say

758
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 2: that fair enough.

759
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 3: Has he played? He was gonna be on the twenty

760
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 3: twelve team, but he got hurt, Like last second. I

761
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 3: think that happened as well twenty fourteen. Yeah, I would

762
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 3: have liked to see him out there. But the number

763
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 3: one guy who didn't play, who I'm putting this on?

764
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis?

765
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: Yeah?

766
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 2: Good deserves it.

767
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 3: What has he done to be setting this out? He

768
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 3: got put on the twenty twelve Olympic team. Yeah no,

769
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 3: out of college, which was cool. Everybody said this guy's

770
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 3: gonna be the next big star. He's twenty six years old.

771
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 3: He should be the star of Team USA right now.

772
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 3: He played his shortest NBA season this year. He should

773
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 3: be ready.

774
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: This should be his team.

775
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 3: You want an explosive, athletic big guy who rebounds, who passes,

776
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 3: who can score, who can play above the rim, Anthony Davis.

777
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 3: This team would have gon undefeated him.

778
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: Would have helped to have him against stretching.

779
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 2: The floor for sure, just getting those arms up there. Yeah,

780
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis. He has got a huge season ahead of him.

781
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 2: He has to be a dominant superstar this year.

782
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: He says he's gonna win Defensive Player of the Year.

783
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 2: Wow, go and do it, man, No, seriously, through exactly

784
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 2: he quit on his team last year, Like there's no doubt.

785
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 2: He just said, I don't want to play here anymore.

786
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 2: We go to the Lakers, all right, I've got to

787
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 2: focus on the season upcoming season. Well, you had gotten

788
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 2: much better experience playing right now for a team that

789
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 2: needed him to be the player he's going to have

790
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 2: to be for the Lakers this year. To get some

791
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 2: practice and go out there, deal with expectations, go out

792
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 2: there and win the gold metaphy his country. Instead, he's like, no,

793
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 2: I just need to work out bad bad.

794
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: He may have some Space Jam two scenes.

795
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 2: He's gonna he better not he in Space Jam two

796
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 2: that he is. Yeah, that's the thing, man, that's that's

797
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 2: a that's a joke.

798
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 3: That's a joke.

799
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 2: But the point is, like Lebron's got championships and m

800
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 2: vps and he's thirty four. Fine, he can take the

801
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 2: summer off to do whatever he wants to do in

802
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 2: his next life. David, if he's shooting Space Jam rather

803
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 2: than playing for the US.

804
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: You don't know for a fact that he's shooting space

805
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: but let's being.

806
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 2: Is to get you fired up that that that makes

807
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 2: him that and you haven't He hasn't done anything yet,

808
00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 2: He hasn't achieved anything worthy of that sort of standoff

809
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 2: to say, no, I didn't want to play for my country.

810
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: So the guys that should have been there, specifically A

811
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 1: d and Blake.

812
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 3: According to Trey Blake, I'll give a little more more respect. Yeah,

813
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 3: he was coming off an injury by Anthony Davis. I mean, yeah,

814
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 3: he could say he's coming off an injury too. It

815
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,399
Speaker 3: doesn't want to mess with his money, But come on, man,

816
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 3: if you put tm USA on your back, all would

817
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,240
Speaker 3: have been forgetting for the Pelicans.

818
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 1: Nice top five, really passionate. I wanted to end this

819
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: with a little trivia because I while I was getting

820
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 1: ready for this, you know, looking at some some former

821
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 1: tm USA teams, even though I can't remember them. I mean,

822
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 1: you start, you get me going to I'm pretty confident

823
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 1: what I say, and then you're.

824
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 2: Like you and then they're like God, if I was

825
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 2: at the Olympics and I for I went to the

826
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 2: USUS Australia game, so is test Yeah he was there.

827
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,399
Speaker 3: That's the confusing thing, is that O two, O four

828
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,280
Speaker 3: oh six, Like when they had all those losses. It's

829
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:53,959
Speaker 3: tough to keep straight. Yeah, I know how you guys

830
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:54,919
Speaker 3: deal with it all the time.

831
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,439
Speaker 1: Yeah. But anyway, when I was looking at these old teams,

832
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: I came across something I thought would make some for

833
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,839
Speaker 1: some fun trivia. I slipped it in there. I said,

834
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: Mellow the only guy to win three Olympic golds. And

835
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: then there's a bunch of people with two. But there's

836
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: only three Americans to have two World Cup Golds, which

837
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: I thought was a little interesting. They're all current players.

838
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: Can you guys name the three Americans to have two

839
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: World Cup golds Kyrie.

840
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 3: No, so we're talking probably like twenty ten fourteen.

841
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: That's exactly right, that the exact years you're looking at.

842
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 3: How about James Harden No, No, he probably wasn't on

843
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 3: the ste.

844
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: Steph Kur is one of them, ding ding ding d No,

845
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: No one on the no one on the level of

846
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: Steph Curry. So not these guys are not.

847
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:47,720
Speaker 2: Well ol Stars.

848
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: One guy had a this one's gonna man, we're just

849
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: piling on Trey here today. This guy was an MVP.

850
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 3: There for twenty four teen. Yeah, yeah, Derrek Rose.

851
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,919
Speaker 1: And then the final one was he could they could

852
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: have used him. America could have used this guy Kevin Love. No,

853
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 1: but like a three sort of slash for he's probably

854
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: plays four and feb. But for sure athletic. You know

855
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: he's been in alls.

856
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 2: Yes, did he just not play? He just like he

857
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:18,879
Speaker 2: pulled out.

858
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: No, I mean he's guess he's a little older, really

859
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,959
Speaker 1: good Yeah, Ulster team.

860
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:30,280
Speaker 2: No, he's kind of Yeah, he's been close, but yeah.

861
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,240
Speaker 1: I just couldn't remember if he had like a sneaky

862
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: Richard Jefferson All Stars.

863
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 2: Sort of like not Zach Randolph and maccasol made them

864
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 2: for those Greasies teams, and he hasn't really been close.

865
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:40,840
Speaker 1: Enough that I guess you're right. So there you go.

866
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: Rudy Gay, Derrick Rose, Steph Cruz, the only Americans with

867
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Speaker 1: two World Cup golds. Your boy running back for the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: Your boy Brad Miller, the only guy with two bronze.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Brad Miller is a bronze medal winning player team USA.

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Speaker 3: If you're sending Brad Miller, you're happy, I suppose.

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Speaker 1: So there it is. Guys, enjoy the World Cup semifinals.

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Speaker 1: We don't know when we're gonna be back. We'll see

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Speaker 1: how those semifinals shake out, and then the finals on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Just remind you on Friday the semifinals Argentina, France and

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Speaker 1: Spain Australia. They should be good. We have no idea

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Speaker 1: who's gonna win this thing, but maybe we'll be back.

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Speaker 1: It will even wait for Task to get back, get

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Speaker 1: some some stories from his traveling over in Israel, and

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Speaker 1: we can talk about the games or whatever. We'll figure

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 1: It's not even a four star, like an accidental four star.

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Speaker 3: You're better not.

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Speaker 1: But thank you so much everyone. We'll here. No, I

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