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Speaker 3: Interesting. All right, Well, we got lots to talk about.

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Speaker 3: We actually have some NBA questions. Yes, believe it or not,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna talk a little NBA on this pod. We

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Speaker 3: with some FOEBA World Cup talk. We've been having a

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Speaker 3: blast watching a ton of it on playback. Thanks everybody

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Speaker 3: final four. Our semifinals are on Friday. We're gonna be

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Speaker 3: up very early on playback for the Canada versus Serbia

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Speaker 3: game at four forty five a m. That's on Friday.

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Speaker 3: Because we had Canada beat Slovenia to reach the semis

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Speaker 3: as Luca got ejected. Let's go through all four of

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Speaker 3: these quarterfinals games and then we can maybe make some

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Speaker 1: That's why we're starting with Canada. They may not be

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Speaker 3: That's the honest truth, because he sort of snaps and

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Speaker 3: But he helped Luca to like four or fourteen shooting

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Speaker 2: He is a weird dude, weird guy.

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Speaker 3: But he's played really well, really well for Team Canada

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Speaker 1: He's not a real person to be to be in

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Speaker 3: I think he's gone to another level in this He's

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Speaker 3: because that's really the final part to be like, like

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Speaker 3: Luca is a perfect example where he fills up a

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Speaker 1: I just have to win. Yeah, and yeah, everybody will

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Speaker 1: doubt him in a way until they win. Is he

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Speaker 1: hyped for this OKAC team. Yeah, the way that how

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Lithuane, he had fifteen turnovers in this game too,

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Speaker 3: This guy is a bucket. I mean he is. It's

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Speaker 3: even Nikil, Alexander Walker and Shay can obviously get matched

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Speaker 2: You think you'll getcha? Murray are gonna fly out for

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Speaker 3: Probably not.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Joker can't leave his horses, no way, at

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Speaker 3: And Jamal no, I don't see what's where is he? Actually?

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure we are you so no, probably not,

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Speaker 3: let's talk a little bit about tm USA bouncing back.

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Speaker 3: They crushed Italy one sixty three to reach the semi finals.

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Speaker 2: One, Mama Mia. Bad timing for Italy playing Team USA

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Speaker 2: People are saying, did they tank the game against Lithuania

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Speaker 1: Oh, Mike, I like this story that apparently the Americans

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's smart because you know the Italians they like

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Speaker 3: They were all skipping down the court, and of course

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Speaker 3: You shouldn't be doing that when you're up thirty.

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Speaker 3: Who can forget any other thoughts there?

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Speaker 1: I forgot America. I forgot about Camp grabbing his nuts.

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Speaker 1: Oh I totally forgot.

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Speaker 3: for that as well. But they squeezed past Latvia eighty

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Speaker 3: But they still haven't got a loss and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: Well, they got size Franz Wagner eight boards. Even though

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Speaker 1: Maybe he's the wrong word, but they're a really well

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Speaker 1: rounded team. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was impressive for Germany to get a

436
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Speaker 2: win with Shrewder playing the worst game he's played for

437
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Speaker 2: Germany at least during this FIBA run, including you know,

438
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Speaker 2: their friendlies and that kind of stuff. Germany had this

439
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Speaker 2: one in the bag though, and they almost completely blew It.

440
00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:42,000
Speaker 2: Came down to a shot for Berton's, like really deep shot,

441
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Speaker 2: but he was open pretty good. Look. People are saying,

442
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Speaker 2: should he have given the ball back to Zagers? Maybe so,

443
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Speaker 2: but what as a scramble situation. I'm impressed that Burton's

444
00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,479
Speaker 2: got the stop and the board. Yeah, he got Shrewder

445
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Speaker 2: to pick up the ball once and then he ate

446
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Speaker 2: him up again, got the board. They had a look

447
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Speaker 2: at it didn't go down, but uh yeah, I mean

448
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Speaker 2: Germany played Team USA pretty well in their friendlies. I

449
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Speaker 2: remember they beat Canada and I think they blew one

450
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Speaker 2: against Canada as well, so they've been really tough throughout

451
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Speaker 2: this FOBA schedule here, and I'm assuming this game is

452
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Speaker 2: gonna be a tight one as well.

453
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so who do you have going through to the

454
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Speaker 3: World Cup Final? Like I said, we got Canada, Serbia, Usa, Germany.

455
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Speaker 3: I don't know the line for that first game, but

456
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Speaker 3: I saw USA favored by ten and a half over

457
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Speaker 3: the unbeaten Germans. Maybe disrespectful there, but who do you like?

458
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Speaker 3: Are we gonna get the dream matchup for US at

459
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Speaker 3: least USA versus Canada?

460
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Speaker 1: I hope so? Yeah, I think so, why the heck not?

461
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Speaker 1: Canada's playing it. The Canada is more of the question mark.

462
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Speaker 1: They're playing above their heads. Like I just I just

463
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Speaker 1: think she is playing out of this world. He's got

464
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Speaker 1: to keep it up against Serbia. It's not easy. I'm

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Speaker 1: more worried about that game.

466
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Speaker 2: I think we got the No Dunks Ball coming, so

467
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Speaker 2: the No Ducks Cup I suppose for this one. But yeah,

468
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not thinking Team USA is through, but

469
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Speaker 2: they should be the favorites there. Of course, They've got

470
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Speaker 2: a lot of depth, and the things that Germany is

471
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Speaker 2: great at aren't necessarily the things that are going to

472
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Speaker 2: beat Team USA. Like, I don't know that Germany is

473
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Speaker 2: going to completely destroy the glass the way Lithuania did.

474
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Speaker 2: And then I think the other one is going to

475
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Speaker 2: be a little bit tighter Serbia and Canada, just because

476
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Speaker 2: that Serbian team has played together for such a long time.

477
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Speaker 2: They've got some big dudes as well. It kind of

478
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Speaker 2: comes down to the back courts. Dylan Brooks has been

479
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Speaker 2: really really good so far. Can he have a stinker?

480
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Speaker 2: It'll probably happen at some point, but maybe not until

481
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Speaker 2: the NBA season. Shay, I think we'll just keep it up.

482
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Speaker 2: So Shay versus Bogie. You're taking Shay at this point.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's hear from everybody out there who you got

484
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Speaker 3: going through to the gold medal game. With those four

485
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Speaker 3: remaining teams, I will note eight of the twelve Olympic

486
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Speaker 3: Men's basketball spots for the twenty twenty four games in Paris,

487
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Speaker 3: they've been filled host France, you got USA, in Canada,

488
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Speaker 3: Germany and Serbia because Slovie Na lost and they advance,

489
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Speaker 3: so they're through. From the europe Region, Australia, South Sedan

490
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Speaker 3: and Japan. So those other four spots, that's eight to twelve.

491
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Speaker 3: Those other four spots will be filled by the winner

492
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Speaker 3: of these last chance tournaments in July, and you know,

493
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Speaker 3: obviously some good teams that I did not list there

494
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Speaker 3: that'll be hoping to get in there, Slovenia being one

495
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Speaker 3: of them. Like it's like, you know they're not there

496
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Speaker 3: right now. They'll have to qualify and well that mean,

497
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Speaker 3: you know, Luca after what they would hope to have

498
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Speaker 3: a long playoff run in Dallas, does he go then

499
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Speaker 3: you know, straight to that qualifying tournament and then right

500
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Speaker 3: from there into the Olympics if they were to make it. Like,

501
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Speaker 3: it's a lot of basketball, which is why it was huge,

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Speaker 3: like a team like Canada especially to qualify for the

503
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Speaker 3: Olympics so they don't have to do that particular tournament

504
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Speaker 3: come July.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got some big NBA names going to be

506
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Speaker 1: playing in that qualifying tournament. Probably the Bahamas will be

507
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Speaker 1: playing in that qualifying tournament with DeAndre ad and Eric Gordon,

508
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Speaker 1: Buddy Heeled, We've got Turkey Shngoon. Yeah, they'll be you

509
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Speaker 1: know in the various turn they'll be making it happen.

510
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Speaker 1: But it's gonna be a pack summer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like will Carl Anthony Towns be playing again to

512
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Speaker 3: the Dominican Republic to try and get them into the Olympics. Probably, Yeah, yeah,

513
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Speaker 3: we thinks so. So it could be fun with some

514
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Speaker 3: of these last chance tournaments, but that's in July. That's

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Speaker 3: our thoughts on the Feedble World Cup so far. Again,

516
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Speaker 3: we've been enjoying the hell out of these games. So

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Speaker 3: join us tomorrow morning if you're a sicko, or maybe

518
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Speaker 3: you're somewhere else in the world and it's a lot

519
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Speaker 3: better for you four forty five am. We'll probably go

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Speaker 3: live around four thirty am for Canada.

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Speaker 1: So wake you want to do a pre game, you

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Speaker 1: want to get get up early.

523
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Speaker 3: You got to get up. I gotta make a coffee. Yeah,

524
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Speaker 3: I gotta fire up the playback, say hello to the people.

525
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Speaker 3: We'll be around four thirty or so, and then I

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Speaker 3: don't know what's going to happen in the gap, like

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Speaker 3: that game should be over by what seven, like two

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Speaker 3: and a.

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Speaker 1: Half hours, not even short.

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Speaker 3: I might just go back to bed then and then

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Speaker 3: get up for USA Germany. And yeah, we are hoping well,

532
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Speaker 3: you know, no doubt that we want a Canada USA

533
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Speaker 3: gold medal game. But do not be shocked at all

534
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Speaker 3: if Serbia beats Canada or held Germany.

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Speaker 2: B two s a.

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Speaker 3: These are two really, really good squads, and they're obviously

537
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Speaker 3: coming into it as sort of like quote unquote underdog

538
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Speaker 3: being overlooked, so they'll have that little chip on their

539
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Speaker 3: shoulder as well. Can't wait for those that's tomorrow, though.

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Speaker 3: Let's take our first break when we come back. A

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Speaker 3: little NBA question. Nice to see that fly still living

542
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Speaker 3: here in the Classic factory right there. Yeah, we haven't

543
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Speaker 3: been here in a while, but there he is.

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Speaker 2: I think it's.

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Speaker 1: Bigger, I think so. I didn't know. I didn't know

546
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Speaker 1: what Trey was looking at the beginning of the show

547
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Speaker 1: where there was a I think.

548
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Speaker 3: I got Yeah, well done, Tassy like a cat, Yes,

549
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Speaker 3: just plucking it out of the air.

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Speaker 1: Flies everywhere. Trev was looking at the nick on my

551
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Speaker 1: my neck earlier in the show one fly season. It's

552
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Speaker 1: wedding season and it's flies.

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Speaker 3: That's right, and football season, I guess all right. The

554
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Speaker 3: NBA off season has been quiet for a few months now,

555
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 3: and that sort of is news in and of itself.

556
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Speaker 3: But the twenty twenty four season right around the corner,

557
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Speaker 3: so we need to start getting our minds back in

558
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Speaker 3: game shape. Thankfully, our friends already ESPN had a few

559
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Speaker 3: key questions surrounding the landscape of the season that I

560
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Speaker 3: thought we could tackle here. And the first one, guys,

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Speaker 3: which team is in the best position to knock off

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Speaker 3: those champion Denver Nuggets.

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Speaker 1: We're going to the top.

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Speaker 3: Why not?

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Speaker 1: When I think of this question, I think it's it's

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Speaker 1: unreasonable to think of an Eastern Conference team. I just

567
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Speaker 1: feel like it's cheap, you know, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Because it sounds weird that an Eastern Conference team would

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Speaker 3: knock off the team that also made it from the

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Speaker 3: other conference.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess they can. They can.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: I want to start in the West, and there's I

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Speaker 1: think there's several teams. I think the Warriors have a shot.

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Speaker 1: I think the Suns have a shot. But I'm surprising myself.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to say the Lakers. I guess say the

577
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers. I think the second half of the

578
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Speaker 1: Lakers show that this team is really, really solid, and

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Speaker 1: with all those acquisitions that they're gonna have for the

580
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: entire season next year, I think it's gonna help Lebron

581
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Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis be fresher in the playoffs. They got

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Speaker 1: so much younger, they played so much faster. That's exactly

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Speaker 1: what Lebron and Anthony Davis need. Austin Reeves is that

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Speaker 1: third star that they've been looking for. He looks phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: I do like the Gabe Vincent signing to just be

586
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Speaker 1: that tough dude to play, you know, sort of a

587
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Speaker 1: platoon with D'Angel Russell. So now I think you have

588
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Speaker 1: four solid players. I think Ruya Chimura he shined in LA.

589
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,640
Speaker 1: Some players do, some players don't, and he did. We'll

590
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Speaker 1: get to another signing a little later in the show

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Speaker 1: that the Lakers did. That will I think help the

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Speaker 1: the longevity of Anthony Davis when he goes into the playoffs.

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00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: And that's what it really comes down to, ad versus Jokich.

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Speaker 1: If we're talking about these two teams and AD's got

595
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Speaker 1: to be fresh, and he showed he's a great defensive player.

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00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 1: I think he's learned how to keep his body fresh

597
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: for the postseason. Even though we all know he gets

598
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Speaker 1: the knicks and the necks throughout the regular season. He

599
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Speaker 1: did play throughout the postseason. He did get out played

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Speaker 1: by there's no doubt, but I think they've learned to

601
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Speaker 1: keep him fresh. And yeah, they match up well, there's

602
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Speaker 1: just not a lot of teams that match up well

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Speaker 1: with the Nuggets because of Jokic and ad Ken if

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Speaker 1: he's ready, and I'll pick them right now. I'll change

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00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 1: my mind a couple weeks, but I'll go with them.

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Speaker 3: That's right, that's right. This is early September. We are

607
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 3: not locked into any of these predictions. Okay, we're going Lakers.

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Speaker 1: What do you got?

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Speaker 2: I actually agree with Tasks. I think it's the Lakers,

610
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Speaker 2: though I do wish they had like a beef guy.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about Christian Wood later. He's not a beefy

612
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 2: type and they are still going to be missing that

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Speaker 2: against Jokic. Yeah, because Anthony Davis couldn't gud Yokich. They

614
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 2: didn't even try him on him. It was like ruy Hachamura.

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Speaker 2: It was Lebron, and it took Lebron out of the game.

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Speaker 2: Like Lebron did a solid job on Jokic and he

617
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,959
Speaker 2: had no legs in the fourth quarter. So I do

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00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 2: think it's the Lakers. They got swept last year against

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Speaker 2: the Nuggets. It was still close, people like to say,

620
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Speaker 2: but they still got swept. They got better, but they've

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Speaker 2: got Lebron and ad so that puts him ahead. But

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Speaker 2: you look at Phoenix. They won two against Denver in

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Speaker 2: the playoffs. They added Brad Beilt, Eric Gordon, and a

624
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 2: bunch of guys that everybody likes on minimum contracts. That

625
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 2: being said, the two wins they got Kevin Durant and

626
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 2: Devin Booker went for eighty points in both of those games.

627
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 2: So the game exactly, you got to try and out

628
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 2: score it. But man Yo Kitch is such a cheat

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Speaker 2: code because like, Phoenix has a number one draft picked

630
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Speaker 2: center and he has no chance against jokitchen Yo just

631
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 2: put him in the basket. And that's without going into

632
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 2: the fact that they got the best starting lineup out there.

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Speaker 2: So the team that's most likely to beat Denver this

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00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 2: year is in the Eastern Conference, definitely, and Milwaukee Bucks.

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Speaker 3: Milwaukee, Okay, though you're.

636
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 2: They've got size, Nah, Boston too small. The Bucks are big,

637
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 2: They've got size, they got defense, and they got Yannis.

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00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 2: All of the Nuggets have basically said, the Timberwolves played

639
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 2: us the hardest last year. It's because they had two

640
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 2: seven footers, and so did the Bucks. So I think

641
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 2: that's the team that has the best chance against Denver.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, it's here from everybody out there joining

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Speaker 3: us live on YouTube, listening to the podcast later you

644
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 3: can tweet at us at No Dunk sinc I and

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Speaker 3: see on the end you can leave them in the

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Speaker 3: YouTube comments. Your answers to all these questions. Which team

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Speaker 3: is in the best position to knock off the Nuggets?

648
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Speaker 3: Next one here, which team needs to make the playoffs

649
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 3: or show marked improvement? Which like they're under the gun

650
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 3: to really start turning things around tasks and start getting

651
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 3: some wins. Either a team that's sort of on the

652
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 3: precipice of being good and need to get in the playoffs,

653
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 3: or a team that's like been bad for a long

654
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 3: time and needs to start winning some damn games.

655
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: Where you go, well, it's the Pelicans. They have so

656
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: many question marks. Zion's looking good in the gym, working

657
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: out now, and it's a it's just a question of

658
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: him being on the floor. As we all know, it's

659
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: not a question about talent, it's not a Ben Simmons question.

660
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: But if you can't be on the floor, then question

661
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: marks in the front office, question marks with the rest

662
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: of the roster and brandon Ingram and now there's a

663
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: Troy Murray. Troy Murphy, a Trey Murphy. I will always

664
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: call Trey Murphy Troy Murphy, Trey Murphy warrior's legend, absolute legend.

665
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 2: He he just is available early, ahead of his time.

666
00:30:58,520 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: Oh you know it?

667
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 3: Wow A hot take, right.

668
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: But speaking of gunners, Trey Murphy the third injured. He

669
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 1: had an incredible second half to the season. Only Curry

670
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: and Clay hit more threes. He was on fire, hit

671
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 1: forty two percent of his threes after the All Star break.

672
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: But he's shown throughout his year here, throughout his two

673
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: years that he is a great three point shooter, just

674
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: just perfect to play around, Ingram McCollum and Zion. He

675
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: had two hundred threes last year and now he's heard

676
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: some miniscus injury. I doubt he'll start the season. But

677
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: let's say he's not there and they get out to

678
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: a bad start. Yes, heads may roll and they just

679
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: may not be able to come back from it just

680
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: because they don't have shooting. They're twenty third and threes

681
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: made last year. And if he's not there, I mean,

682
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: you're just hoping that Herb Jones has a bounce back year.

683
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: And he's just good. I mean, he's a he's a

684
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: really good player. Athleticism, he's in a dunk contest, he

685
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: can throw down. He just fits so well with those guys.

686
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, and when he's not there, the puzzle piece

687
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: is just there's just so much more. Yeah, non fitting,

688
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: they don't fit as well. So I think that's that's key.

689
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 1: He should get hopefully get back because there's so many

690
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: injury concerns obviously with that team.

691
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 3: Who are you going with?

692
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 2: I think the Pelicans is good and I did see

693
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 2: Zion working out. He looks like he's in shape, but

694
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 2: it also it looks like his gym is like a

695
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 2: garage flat screen on the wall, a cabinet with the

696
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 2: like normal door pulls on it. Very weird. I was like,

697
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 2: did you just stop at Will Gillory's house and get

698
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 2: to work out it. There's a lot of teams I

699
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 2: think they need to make some improvement. The Mavericks went

700
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 2: thirty eight and forty four last year. That's ridiculous. Yeah,

701
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 2: they tanked it away at the end of the season,

702
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 2: but that was like one week of tanking. They just

703
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 2: couldn't put things together after the Kyrie Irving trade and

704
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 2: obviously the long season war on Lucas. So I think

705
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 2: that's an easy one. I think the timber Wolves need

706
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 2: to look more cohesive. They got better as the second

707
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 2: half of the season came along last year, and we

708
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 2: said they played the Nuggets okay in the playoffs, but

709
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 2: they got to be better in the Eastern Conference. For me,

710
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 2: it's our hometown Atlanta Hawks right here. They made the

711
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 2: conference finals surprisingly in the twenty one season. Then they

712
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 2: won a fewer percentage of their games in the twenty

713
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 2: two season, and then last year just forty one and

714
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 2: forty one. They did make it back to the playoffs.

715
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 2: But things have changed now around Atlanta. We got a

716
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 2: new coach in town in Quinn Snyder. He's there for

717
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 2: a full season. John Collins was finally traded, didn't bring

718
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 2: anything back. People are gonna start looking at Trey Young

719
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 2: even more so. If the Hawks continue to be kind

720
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 2: of like a middling team and it always comes down

721
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 2: to the start of the season for Atlanta, it feels

722
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 2: like where they just come out and they are not

723
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 2: ready to start the season. So they need to come

724
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 2: out and have a big October November and get Trey

725
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 2: under the All Star Game. Like if Trey Young makes

726
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 2: the All Star Game, the Hawks are gonna have a

727
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 2: good season because it means he's been playing well the

728
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 2: whole year.

729
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll go with a team that to me is

730
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 3: like a little similar to the Hawks in the West.

731
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 3: The Timberwolves, I think, need to show marked improvement right

732
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 3: be a playoff team, of course. I mean they should

733
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 3: be flirting sort of with home court advantage I think

734
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 3: in the Western Conference, or at least that's the design

735
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 3: of this squad. And if they get off to a

736
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 3: slow start, oh my god, then you're going to hear

737
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 3: non stop Karl Anthony town trade rumors because it will

738
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 3: be like get out of the way and give it

739
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 3: to Anthony Edwards and we've got go bear. We don't

740
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 3: think we'll get the package we would get for him

741
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 3: if we moved him, So we got to move Cat.

742
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,399
Speaker 3: And I like some of the moves they made. I'm

743
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 3: telling everybody to buy as much Nikhil Alexander walk Walker

744
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 3: stock as you can. They have like some depth on

745
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 3: this squad. They should be good, but they cannot start slow,

746
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 3: just like the Hawks here in the East. So to me,

747
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 3: I would go I sort of have them circled as

748
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 3: like they got to come out and look competent and

749
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 3: try and make these pieces of work, because at least

750
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 3: they had the excuse last year, I Karl Anthony Town's

751
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 3: getting injured and we didn't see a lot of go

752
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 3: Bear and Cat and so we didn't even know really

753
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 3: how it worked and if it could work and whatever,

754
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 3: along with Anthony Edwards sort of blossoming into an All

755
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 3: Star player. So you know, they got to figure all

756
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 3: this out. I have, I actually have some expectations for

757
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,240
Speaker 3: this team, but they can't start slow because man, those

758
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 3: those trade whispers will be not they'll be loud, they'll

759
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 3: be trade yell's. Yeah, because you'll you'll you'll have to

760
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 3: make that move. I would think if they start badly

761
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 3: the Cat, Yeah, how could they if they started five

762
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 3: and fifteen, you know, seven and twenty like.

763
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, either they be that or Chris Finch, somebody

764
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:20,280
Speaker 2: will be gone.

765
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 1: That's usually the.

766
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 3: First You're right, that's the first domino. But then somebody

767
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 3: else comes in and you know, same person Ellen As

768
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 3: you can't get it to work, then it's gonna move off.

769
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: Cat. And they've been playing fine under Chris Finch. They

770
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: haven't been playing poorly under him. You know, it's about

771
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: a five hundred record since he got there. They just

772
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: have to be uh yeah, a little bit more cohesive.

773
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 1: They have the parts, that's for sure, and it's about coaching.

774
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: I think with both these teams, with the Atlanta Hawks

775
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 1: as well, there's a lot of belief in Quinn Snyder

776
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: and getting a lot out of these guys, and Trey

777
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 1: Young has a big belief in Quinn Snyder. But it's

778
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 1: got to be on him and this team that yeah,

779
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: decreased their talent in trading John Collins, but if there's

780
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: an increase in hey, we're playing together, uh and buying

781
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 1: in then they have so much talent. Trey's not done.

782
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: Try's not done. Yeah. This trajectory of Trey, you know,

783
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: being a selfish player or being looked at as a

784
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: selfish player is it's got to stop. Even even his cohorts,

785
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: his colleagues were weren't voting for him as an All Star.

786
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 1: As a guy who's going thirty and ten last year

787
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: going into the All Star break, things got to change.

788
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, I do believe it in Quinn and

789
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,359
Speaker 1: they had that. They had that nice runway of last

790
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: year of having Quinn in the fold. So that's that's

791
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: a good start. I think for them all.

792
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 3: Right, final one here, which notable signing, extension or trade

793
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 3: will be deemed an early success trail. Let's start with you.

794
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 2: We always talk about FOEBA competitions being a springboard for

795
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:57,240
Speaker 2: success into the NBA. Could it be Dylan Brooks.

796
00:36:58,040 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 3: Houston rock It was not expecting.

797
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 2: I was not expecting this Skeets, But I'm like, he's

798
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,919
Speaker 2: been great in FOBA. He was key in getting them

799
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 2: to the knockout round. He had a great second half.

800
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 2: Who did they end up beating Lafia?

801
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: Right?

802
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 2: They needed Dylan Brooks. If Dylan Brooks plays as well

803
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 2: for Houston as he has been for Canada and gives

804
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:22,479
Speaker 2: the same leadership, gets kicked out occasionally from a game,

805
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 2: trash talks shows up with boxing gloves, I think that's

806
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 2: awesome for the Rockets. I don't know if I'm necessarily

807
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 2: buying into it, if it will happen, If if you

808
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 2: want him to be as big of a part of

809
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,720
Speaker 2: your team in the NBA as he is for Canada.

810
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,720
Speaker 2: I don't know, but a lot of players have success

811
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 2: in a World Cup and take it into the NBA.

812
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 2: It could be Dylan Brooks with the Houston Rockets. The

813
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 2: shots shall be there.

814
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was instrumental in the win against Spain. Yeah,

815
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 3: obviously in the knockout there. He's won in the Latvian

816
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 3: game as well. Dylan Brooks and Fred van Vliet, Are

817
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 3: they gonna be like the difference makers there with Udoka

818
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 3: in Houston to actually start winning some games.

819
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:06,800
Speaker 1: As far as the temperament, the the locker room goes,

820
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: those guys can have a big impact Udoka included. But

821
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: the guys who are going to take them to the

822
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: next level are Jayalen Green, Shenghu and Jabari Smith. Really

823
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: to get him to the next level, which is thirty

824
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: five wins, And I think the guys who will get

825
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: credit for it in the mainstream will probably be Dylan

826
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 1: Brooks and Udoka and maybe some Fred. Yeah, but I

827
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: think the guys the guys who I believe and I

828
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: believe in Jail Great, I believe in Shangoo, I believe

829
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: in Jabari Smith. I think they have a lot of talent.

830
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: But I think yeah, as far as just being a professional, Yeah,

831
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: Brooks is gonna help do that. I'm buying in as well,

832
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 1: and he could play.

833
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 3: He just stop there, Andyeah about how funny that sounds yeah,

834
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,720
Speaker 3: but you're not specialism and Dylan Brooks.

835
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, as far as just showing up and

836
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: playing hard, Rockets haven't had that in years, Right, he

837
00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be good, He doesn't have to be

838
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 1: you know, it would help, it would help. Yeah, But

839
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 1: like what's good mean? I mean twelve points a game,

840
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:07,800
Speaker 1: playing really really really really really.

841
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,879
Speaker 3: Darren Brooks is not shooting your team out of a game.

842
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 3: That's when he's a great, a great player, because you

843
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 3: know he's gonna give it one hundred percent. On the

844
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 3: defensive end, Yeah, and he is. He is an elite

845
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:18,399
Speaker 3: defender because he tries his ass off and I mean

846
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 3: that's you know that that's half a defense, right, like

847
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 3: giving a damn on that end. It's when he gets

848
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 3: in trouble is when he gets a little too shot happy.

849
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 3: He thinks he has to take over. And then you're

850
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,839
Speaker 3: looking at the five for nineteen box scores when it's

851
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 3: five for twelve, No, no one blinks, no one cares.

852
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 3: That's perfectly fine. Hit a couple of threes, he get

853
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 3: the line a couple of times. You're you're happy. It's

854
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 3: it's when he it's when he thinks he turns into

855
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:40,760
Speaker 3: you know, or he thinks he's Kobe for a second.

856
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 3: What are you doing man?

857
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 2: That's it?

858
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, I think there's a couple of things

859
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 1: going for the Rockets. Number one, I mean Dylan Brooks. Yes,

860
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,319
Speaker 1: he got a big contract, but he also just got

861
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: kicked off a team in the Memphis Grizzly, so I

862
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: think that has to wake up a little bit. But

863
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: also there's a floor general in Fred van Vliet, and

864
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: there's other guys who want to shoot Jalen Green. It's

865
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 1: gonna shoot plenty, he Jabari Smith and Shangu they all

866
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,439
Speaker 1: have to have the rock So I think he can help.

867
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: And again it's like, yeah, five for ten, well that's

868
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,800
Speaker 1: a great night. Actually more like four for twelve playing

869
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: ridiculously hard, and yeah, just help him turn around that

870
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: locker room and those will be the guys who gets

871
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: the credit because Dylan Brooks is the headline all the time.

872
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,319
Speaker 1: But I think Udoka is going to have a big

873
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 1: part on that. In that locker room, well.

874
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 3: We saw he wasn't afraid to call out superstars in

875
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 3: Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown. I don't know why he'd

876
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:28,919
Speaker 3: be afraid to like try and reel in Dylan Brooks

877
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 3: when he needs to be reeled in, and Van Zlee

878
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 3: can probably help with that too. He's basically a floor general.

879
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,720
Speaker 3: So hey, look, I love in the Dylan Brooks praise.

880
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just a little shocked I'm hearing it.

881
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 3: But if you have been watching how he's played for

882
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 3: Team Canada, you can see why these guys are saying

883
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 3: this and can he just carry that over to the

884
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:46,720
Speaker 3: Rockets maybe?

885
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 2: Hey. Second on my list was Dennis shruder Man. Oh, yes,

886
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 2: he's been balling in FIBA too.

887
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 3: He has been.

888
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 2: You only get the credit for the bump though, if

889
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:56,800
Speaker 2: you're a young player, if you're a lowry markin and

890
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:58,839
Speaker 2: dominating for Finland. They're like, what if he brings this

891
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 2: to his to his NBA team? What if Dennis Shrewder

892
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,720
Speaker 2: is a twenty point per game score for the Raptors.

893
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 2: That'd be big.

894
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 3: He could be, but that may not be a good sign.

895
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 3: A bunch of games, but he's been. He was amazing.

896
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 3: I mean, he had one stinker there, we talked about

897
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 3: four to twenty six. Otherwise he's been like, you know,

898
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 3: on the short list for All Tournament team.

899
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,399
Speaker 1: He's gonna play and That's why I'm telling you it's

900
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 1: not that bad of an offseason for the Reps. Even

901
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: though they lost Fred van Vleet. The drop off isn't

902
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: going to be that bad. From a forty one win

903
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: team to a thirty eight point five win team. That's

904
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: their over underline. I just I just made it. It's

905
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: probably like it's it's gonna be lower because there's far

906
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,879
Speaker 1: less expectations. But really, why should the expectations be all

907
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: that different. It's just it's going to be a mediocre team.

908
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: That's fine. Sure is not going to be an All Star,

909
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: but yeah, temper your expectations and at least they're not

910
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: doing the same thing over and over again. I want

911
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 1: to talk about one guy who's in this foeba world

912
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 1: that he is kind of flying under the radar because

913
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 1: he was just in a qualifying tournament, and that's DeAndre Ayton.

914
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:07,839
Speaker 1: We talked about a guy who hasn't been trusted by

915
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:10,720
Speaker 1: Monty Williams is going into a new relationship with Frank

916
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: Vogel as his head coach in Phoenix, and if they

917
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:15,720
Speaker 1: are going to be a threat to the Denver Nuggets,

918
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,839
Speaker 1: he's got to be. He's gotta be good, and he's

919
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: played Yokic twice in the playoffs. In twenty one, he

920
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 1: got beat pretty bad. Even though you know the Suns

921
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:27,879
Speaker 1: were able to move on in that series, Yoki still

922
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:28,800
Speaker 1: gave it to him, and then he gave it to

923
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 1: him even worse here this season. He played for the

924
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: Bahamas this offseason in a pre qualifying tournament where he

925
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 1: was one of the leaders, and you know, I'm buying

926
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 1: a little bit too much into body language, but he

927
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,720
Speaker 1: was in the huddles calling stuff out, being way different.

928
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 1: He's not a vocal guy, but if he could be

929
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 1: anything like that, Frank Vogel can pull something out of

930
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: that from that pre qualifying tournament to just step up

931
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: to Jokicic just to be a more physical presence. He

932
00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: doesn't have to score with Durant Beal and Book, but

933
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: they need him so badly. And so if you if you.

934
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 2: Just get a little upgrade, if you get.

935
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: A little upgrade at center against Jokic, Yeah, I'm just

936
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: I'm just buying into Vogel and buying into the locker

937
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,879
Speaker 1: room and a new relationship with the head coach. He's

938
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,479
Speaker 1: got the talent, as Trey said, a number one overall pick.

939
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,919
Speaker 1: Let's hope he can grow a little bit. They also

940
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: need big, big defensive performances because they might struggle on

941
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: the perimeter a little bit, you know, with Beale and

942
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 1: Booker being their back courts. So they've got the talent.

943
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: They've got the talent, and we know we didn't evention

944
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:38,439
Speaker 1: bal As being a guy who can come in and

945
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: you know, drop twenty five. They're gonna win a lot

946
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: of games.

947
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 3: Bill's gonna be fun because there's gonna be a lot

948
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 3: of like, oh yeah, Bradley Beal, he's really good at scoring.

949
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 3: Like he's gonna have some monster games here, even if

950
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 3: he's playing alongside Booker.

951
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 1: And Katie, He's gonna have games where.

952
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 3: He's like easily scoring thirty thirty five and people are like,

953
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 3: oh yeah, he can do that. So that'll be fun.

954
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 3: You know that'll happen early. I like the eight and

955
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 3: pick there, like we get like I'm guilty as well,

956
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 3: Like we get so caught up in look at this

957
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 3: guy and foba, man, look at this guy. He's a leader.

958
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 3: He's going for twenty five and tens. We see it

959
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,880
Speaker 3: all the time from these guys that are like just

960
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 3: solid decent role players. In the NBA, but they're like,

961
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 3: they're leaders, they're superstars in the international setting, and it's

962
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,760
Speaker 3: it's it's apples to oranges, right, It's just a different environment,

963
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 3: different setting and the pecking order, and and it doesn't

964
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 3: always like sometimes you can see people bring it over,

965
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 3: but not all the time. In fact, more times than not,

966
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 3: you don't.

967
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: You don't like, we don't like.

968
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 3: You know, you're gonna get excited about watching bugged Onovitch

969
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:37,280
Speaker 3: right now, But are you gonna be like, this guy's

970
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 3: gonna be scoring twenty five in the NBA this season.

971
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 2: No, No, he's had too many World Cup runs where

972
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 2: we talk about it.

973
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: I know, I know it looks different. I don't think

974
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 1: I can remember a layup with the Atlanta Hawks, but

975
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 1: he actually drives rim. He looks so different. But with

976
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: DeAndre and I'm not expecting on court development. I don't

977
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: care if he scores twenty points with the Suns. They

978
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,320
Speaker 1: don't need that. Yeah, he just needs to have a mental.

979
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 3: Change, sure, and maybe.

980
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,399
Speaker 1: Maybe Vogel can do that. You know, I'm hoping there's

981
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 1: a Vogel Hibbert reincarnation where he does something just defensively

982
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: with this guy that's that's all it, you know, and

983
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: maybe just a new relationship without Chris Paul being in

984
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: the mix, so maybe they need it desperately.

985
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 3: You think we might have verticality back in our lives.

986
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 3: Bring back Roy any other any other notable signings, extensions,

987
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 3: trades that you think could be an early success you're

988
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 3: excited about.

989
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 2: Austin Reeves is actually good. This guy's legitimately good, and

990
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 2: him going up another level will make the Lakers go

991
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 2: up another level. A deep cut though. I like Obi

992
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 2: Toppin on the Pacers, and I think he's going to

993
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 2: show out playing alongside Tyre's Halliburton, and early in the

994
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,360
Speaker 2: season is the key to me here, because early in

995
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 2: the season he'll be out running, He'll you'll only notice

996
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 2: the good parts of Obie Toppin's game, and maybe not

997
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,280
Speaker 2: Rick Carlisle deciding to keep him on the bench because

998
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 2: he forgets about some stuff defensively or a lack of

999
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:00,120
Speaker 2: being a real three point threat, things that will kind

1000
00:45:59,920 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 2: of pile up as the season goes on and more

1001
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 2: and more games are played and the scouting report changes.

1002
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 2: But yeah, I do think he'll look nice running the

1003
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,800
Speaker 2: wing next to Halliburton. This guy's gonna get some easy

1004
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 2: dunks and he's a great dunker.

1005
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:13,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good call. Like in these first couple

1006
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 3: of weeks, he's gonna be on all these like top

1007
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 3: tens because it'll be throwing down dunks in transition from Halliburn.

1008
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 3: He catches fire from the corner too. He actually can

1009
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 3: shoot a little bit. He's a little streaky, but he

1010
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 3: could have some big, big games that early.

1011
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: I like that one.

1012
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 3: Anything else on your list, No.

1013
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 1: I think we've we're talking about streaky shooters. Sash of

1014
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: A Zenkov with the Kings. I think the Kings are

1015
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: sort of you know, they're flying under the radar because

1016
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 1: they sort of impressed last year big time and they're

1017
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,399
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see them dropping off in any

1018
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 1: way now. It's really hard to go from surprise team

1019
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: to championship type team for sure. Yeah, but I think

1020
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 1: sash of A Zenkov and his shooting, Uh, he plays

1021
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 1: the European game where he moves and he cuts. You

1022
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 1: want to talk about highlights in a different way, you know,

1023
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 1: a shooting way. I think he'll be part of that.

1024
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: And yeah, if they want to get to the next level,

1025
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,320
Speaker 1: they got to play defense. But Yeah, the Zankov is

1026
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 1: a nice little signing, and it's little in that it's

1027
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: not going to make them a championship threat unless they

1028
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: start to play defense. But he's fine. He's a lefty,

1029
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: so that's you know, adds to the fun part, and

1030
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: he shoots it kind of funny. But yeah, he's got

1031
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: a ridiculous percentage, ridiculous efficiency. That offense should be number

1032
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:20,439
Speaker 1: one in the league.

1033
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 3: Again, they added JaVale McGee too, didn't they.

1034
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: They sure did.

1035
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 3: Locker room vibe some championship deigree.

1036
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,359
Speaker 1: Every warrior, every former warrior, come on in.

1037
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right, All right, there's a little NBA

1038
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,320
Speaker 3: talk for you. We'll start ramping up our NBA coverage

1039
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 3: as we get closer and closer to the NBA season.

1040
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 3: It starts in less than fifty days.

1041
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does.

1042
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 3: That sort of blows your mind, don't It's right around

1043
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 3: the corner.

1044
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 2: Isn't going to be like some seriously long seasons for

1045
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:47,360
Speaker 2: a guy like Luca to play through the Fable World Cup,

1046
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 2: have a month off, not even just a few weeks,

1047
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 2: go back into training camp, play an entire season and

1048
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 2: then try to qualify and then play in the Olympics

1049
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 2: and then guess what, it's the next season. That's a

1050
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:00,120
Speaker 2: lot of basketball.

1051
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: Out of basketball, fifty days of hookah. Though, he'll he'll

1052
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 1: get it in.

1053
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 2: You know what he needs.

1054
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 3: He needs a break, like we're gonna take right now.

1055
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere, all right, before we get to tweet

1056
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 3: in the night, you said Troy Murphy accidentally instead of

1057
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,320
Speaker 3: Trey Murphy the third I was looking up his basketball

1058
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:16,320
Speaker 3: reference page. I was a little shocked. What do you

1059
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 3: think he averaged in his career points and rebounds? And

1060
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 3: he played over seven hundred games, he played a game

1061
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 3: that many games played twelve years. What do you think

1062
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 3: he averaged?

1063
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:28,360
Speaker 1: I think it helped that he played for the Golden

1064
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: State Warriors in the bad days. So he did.

1065
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 2: Indeed, fourteen and six, okay, tray ten and five, Okay,

1066
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 2: split the difference, guys, eleven and eight.

1067
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 1: That's a lot of boards bad.

1068
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 3: That's pretty damn good. And uh, you know you said

1069
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 3: he was ahead of his time a little bit. I assumed,

1070
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 3: because you you know, he's a big guy that could

1071
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 3: shoot yep, And I was like, really, could he shoot

1072
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 3: that well? One year for the Pacers, not the Warrions.

1073
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 3: He hit two point two threes a game on five attempt.

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Speaker 3: This guy was a big old white duofist.

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Speaker 1: Why the Pacers loved him?

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00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 3: That's forty and he played a lot of games. This

1077
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 3: wasn't small sample size, like that's legit really good. He

1078
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 3: averaged fourteen that year and twelve boards. Troy Murphy Man,

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00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 3: Troy Murphy was.

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00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:17,240
Speaker 2: A problem people forget. Troy Murphy was a bucket.

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00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 2: Sure, do you think he has a for his similarity scores?

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00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 2: Do you think they got?

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00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 3: Can we get it? Is it possible? I don't know, well, like,

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00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 3: does he like play like him? Look like him?

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00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 2: I would say more looks like him? Okay. Austin Crozier, oh, fair, fair,

1087
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 2: you gotta and Jeff Ate a three point shooting yest Cornianni.

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00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,919
Speaker 2: Now we're not going to get this. Wally Zerbiak, oh

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00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 2: number one cop. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Serbiak was an Austar Stat's comp.

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Speaker 2: Stats. That's a stats comp right there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah wow, all right.

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Speaker 3: Fourteenth pick in the two thousand and one NBA draft,

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Speaker 3: Troy Murphy.

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Speaker 1: Troy Murphy, Troy Murphy the second, Now Trey Murphy the third.

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Speaker 1: Little Yeah, it's an unknown fact that Trey Murphy the

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Speaker 1: second is actually Troy Murphy. What anyway, what Trey Murphy

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00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,720
Speaker 1: the third plays for the Pelicans, Troy Murphy the second

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00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 1: played for the Warriors and the Pacers appearance and.

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Speaker 3: Trey Murphy's dad, that's a that's a that's a conspiracy

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Speaker 3: A lot of people to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why you can shoot the three.

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Speaker 3: So well, that's right, let's get to tweeted the night.

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Speaker 1: Tweet out the night. Wow Indochina. Oh no, here we

1105
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: are all right, tweet the night. We hinted at it earlier.

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Speaker 1: Christian Wood is a September signing and he has signed

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Speaker 1: with the Los Angeles Lakers. Everybody make more of this

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00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 1: than it's actually going to pan out to be. Of course,

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Speaker 1: that's the time. Adrian Woljnowski first with the News and

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00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 1: then this from our man, Mark Spears Christian Wood's statement

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00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 1: to Nandscape about signing with the Lake. The former Mavericks

1112
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:04,920
Speaker 1: forward opted not to discuss his former team, but you

1113
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: know he kind of hinted at it. So here's a

1114
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 1: Wood statement. I've always wanted to be a Laker. I

1115
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:12,320
Speaker 1: know we can win a championship. Communication with a coach

1116
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:14,799
Speaker 1: is a big key coach Ham and I go back

1117
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 1: to our Milwaukee days and we've had great conversations every

1118
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 1: day about this opportunity. He believes in me and told

1119
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: me I'll be playing a big role and knows what

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00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 1: I can do. Ham, I don't know if you want

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Speaker 1: to do that this early. Anyways, I'm looking forward to

1122
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 1: this and for sure motivated after what Dallas did. FA

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Speaker 1: s U r E one word, one word.

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00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 2: Sure.

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00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: So Darvin Ham promising a big role? What kind of promise?

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00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're talking morey hard and promise here.

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00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 1: But in the eyes of Christian Wood, he's going to

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Speaker 1: have a role on this Lakers team. What do you

1129
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: expect of would on this team, Trey.

1130
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Speaker 2: I guess they have a relationship from back in the day, right,

1131
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 2: Christian Wood and Darvin Ham. Yeah, to guys with nouns

1132
00:51:56,400 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 2: for last names, Wood and Ham. Yeah, they got in

1133
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 2: September for the veteran minimum. Pretty good value. Christian Wood,

1134
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:07,920
Speaker 2: he is indeed a bucket, but the expectations are so

1135
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 2: low because he scored sixteen a game for the Dallas

1136
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:14,400
Speaker 2: Mavericks last year and they're like, no, thanks. They're not

1137
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 2: a stacked team. They're a team that didn't even make

1138
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:18,840
Speaker 2: it to the play in tournament by their own volition,

1139
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 2: and they said see you later. Christian Wood because he's

1140
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:24,799
Speaker 2: never played in the playoffs. Yeah, he's gonna help in

1141
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 2: the regular season because Anthony Davis is gonna miss games.

1142
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 2: Christian Wood plays very similarly to Anthony Davis on the

1143
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 2: offensive end. The defensive end, he would rather not play.

1144
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 2: I assume there will be games when Christian Wood is starting,

1145
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 2: But if you're picking up one of your starters in September,

1146
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 2: you didn't have a starter. So that's kind of how

1147
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 2: I feel about it here. It's kind of like the

1148
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,840
Speaker 2: Lakers got to choose between Christian Wood and Bismack Biambo.

1149
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 2: I don't know. I guess they went offense.

1150
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, he can pick and pop. They can shoot, yep,

1151
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 3: you know, for a big guy, you can. He can

1152
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 3: hit the three with some consistency. But yeah, this is

1153
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 3: his eighth NBA team. Christian acculate grid would wow.

1154
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna be a good grid guy.

1155
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 3: The only he's never played on a winning team except

1156
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:09,759
Speaker 3: the team he was alluding to, where Darvin Ham was

1157
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:11,880
Speaker 3: a part of the roster or the coaching staff the Bucks.

1158
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 3: He played like a handful of minutes for that twenty

1159
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 3: eighteen nineteen sixty win Bucks team. Otherwise he's played on

1160
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:21,320
Speaker 3: bad teams and he gets stats. I wouldn't have the

1161
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 3: highest expectations in the world, but he'll have games where

1162
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 3: he goes for twenty and ten and people will get

1163
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,799
Speaker 3: very excited, especially him being a Laker now. But if

1164
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 3: he can rebound a little bit and he can hit

1165
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 3: the three, and he can fill in, like you said,

1166
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 3: tasks when Anthony Davis inevitably misses a couple of weeks

1167
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 3: and sort of keep the team afloat, then then you're fine.

1168
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 3: But yeah, he's he's going to in theory, if he's

1169
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:44,759
Speaker 3: on this team, you know, come the playoffs and they're

1170
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,359
Speaker 3: in it, he'll finally see some playoff action because he's

1171
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 3: never played a single playoff minute. That's crazy.

1172
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 1: You want to talk about Troy Murphy numbers, This guy

1173
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:58,879
Speaker 1: puts up numbers, right, Murphy numbers for Murph numbers. He's

1174
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 1: that average fifteen seven in this league and you know,

1175
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 1: had some big, monstrous years the Dallas Mavericks and nah,

1176
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 1: not interested even that Milwaukee Bucks team that he refers

1177
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 1: to that he has a relationship with Darvin Hamm in

1178
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen they released him. So that's that's he's got

1179
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 1: to change it up. But I think as far as

1180
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 1: him never playing the playoffs, he might not play in

1181
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I don't I don't think. I don't think

1182
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 1: the Lakers care. I don't think the Lakers care. Like

1183
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 1: look at the Suns. They went and signed Bowl Bowl

1184
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 1: as sort of a late August signing. It was an

1185
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:35,719
Speaker 1: August signing. Compare that to this. He's you gotta be

1186
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 1: excited if you're the Lakers. I know it's I don't

1187
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:41,320
Speaker 1: think he's gonna play a big role in the postseason.

1188
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 1: But his number one job is to eat minutes in

1189
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 1: the regular season so Ad can sit and them to have,

1190
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 1: you know, a decent record when he plays.

1191
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 3: So he's a relief pitcher, come on in, man.

1192
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:54,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, middle innings.

1193
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, yeah, he'll be. I mean, I guess he is.

1194
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,800
Speaker 1: He's a least starter. You know, the starter games, the

1195
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:06,320
Speaker 1: bullpen games that they're doing now in Major League Baseball.

1196
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 1: They have a guy come in for two innings to

1197
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 1: start a game. Oh wow, that's what Christian would will

1198
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 1: be just to get Ad to the playoffs. Fresher that's

1199
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 1: the only real purpose I think. But you know, he's talented.

1200
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:21,839
Speaker 1: He's freaking really talented. If anyone ever gets through to him,

1201
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 1: then yeah, it's an incredible, incredible signing.

1202
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:28,280
Speaker 3: I'll tell you who he's not. He's not Pawe Gasol,

1203
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 3: Richard Sherman, all right, you can you can stop with

1204
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:38,320
Speaker 3: those comparisons. Christian Wood is not Powe Gasol, not even close.

1205
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: Uh.

1206
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:41,879
Speaker 3: Well, again, he'll maybe score a little bit, he'll get

1207
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 3: some stats. Maybe he can sop up some minutes when

1208
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 3: Ad goes down. But he's not that great. He's on

1209
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 3: his eighth NBA team. If he was good, he'd be

1210
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:50,959
Speaker 3: with these squads for longer. And a lot of those

1211
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:55,280
Speaker 3: stats came on shitty teams. They were almost always crappy

1212
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 3: twenty win teams and somebody's got a score like I

1213
00:55:57,920 --> 00:55:59,480
Speaker 3: don't want to pile on the guy, but I just

1214
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 3: don't think he as good as some people think because

1215
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:03,320
Speaker 3: they see the box score numbers and they go, whoa.

1216
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:06,280
Speaker 3: It's I don't know, it's a bit of a mirage

1217
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 3: to me, my personal opinion.

1218
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 2: But he's better than Jackson Hayes coming off the bench

1219
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 2: for the Lakers and the Lakers have had some pretty

1220
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 2: good success with this recently, finding a guy on the

1221
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:18,920
Speaker 2: scrap heap and rebuilding its value. They did it with

1222
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 2: Malik Monk, had a good year with the Lakers, then

1223
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 2: went on to have a really got a nice contract

1224
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 2: and have a really nice season with the Kings. Similar

1225
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:29,719
Speaker 2: with Shrewder as well on the Lakers last year, then

1226
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 2: going to the Raptors. So maybe this is another reclamation project.

1227
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 2: People look pretty good playing next to Lebron if you're

1228
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 2: willing to shoot as soon as you get it, which

1229
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 2: he definitely is.

1230
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:41,200
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right, all right, So Christian Wood going to

1231
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 3: LA let's your thoughts on that. I think he can

1232
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:47,279
Speaker 3: make an impact on this team. We're gonna call it

1233
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 3: there because we gotta go sleep. I'm going to bed

1234
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 3: right now, right now, Gotta get up early tomorrow. Canada Serbia,

1235
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:59,279
Speaker 3: four thirty am Eastern. Like this little Canadian flag touch here.

1236
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:03,400
Speaker 3: Gorgeous stuff. So that is on playback. That link is

1237
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 3: in the show notes. Make sure you join the No

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00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 3: Dunk's Room. We're nearly a four thousand in that community,

1239
00:57:08,239 --> 00:57:11,200
Speaker 3: so that's a blast. And then a little bit later

1240
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 3: in the morning, around eight thirty, it'll be USA and Germany.

1241
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: If you're wondering why we're laughing, you got to join

1242
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 1: us on YouTube to see these animations. This is a

1243
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 1: gentleman as Tray Sype kind of looks like Joe Burrow. Oh,

1244
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 1: how do you feel about that freeze? JD? I know

1245
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 1: you're gonna be mad at that later maybe final. Okay,

1246
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,080
Speaker 1: JD's not taking the off season off, that's for sure.

1247
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 3: And who do you like in the football game tonight?

1248
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 3: Chiefs Lions. It's back, baby.

1249
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 2: It's a tough one. Tough one. I gotta go with

1250
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 2: the chefs here. Okay, Yeah, you know, lines are over hyped.

1251
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 2: Oh wow, lines are over hyped.

1252
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 3: Man, A lot of buzz coming into this.

1253
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1254
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 2: So they had a good half a season last year.

1255
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 2: What about the previous forty years?

1256
00:57:58,040 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 3: Okay, task Chiefs Lions.

1257
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 1: I'm going with Patrick. Don't call me Pat Mahomes. Pat

1258
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 1: Mahomes ahead of his time as a pitcher. He was

1259
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 1: a relief pitcher. He could be starting bullpen games. Would

1260
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 1: be the Troy Murphy of today's Major League Baseball.

1261
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 3: Give me the Lions. Is Kelsey playing tonight?

1262
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 1: We don't know.

1263
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 2: That's a great question.

1264
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:26,040
Speaker 3: Give me Detroit I'm buying the hype and my buddy

1265
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:27,919
Speaker 3: Griss will be ecstatic if they win. All right, let's

1266
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 3: call it there, guys, thanks so much for joining us.

1267
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:30,800
Speaker 3: Hit the like button, make sure you subscribe. Go to

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00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:32,720
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Speaker 3: hoodies there, and we will see you tomorrow on playback

1270
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Speaker 3: and we will be planning, you know, after the gold

1271
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 3: medal game to be either back here in the factory

1272
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 3: or jumping in the yard to talk about that. But

1273
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:45,440
Speaker 3: we gotta find out who's playing first, So join us

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Speaker 3: tomorrow on play back until that Clipper bros.

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Speaker 2: You heard it here first, have a great time, turn up.

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00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 2: Love you guys, awesome.

1277
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining. I remember I just checked Kelsey is playing?

1278
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 2: Is he? No?

1279
00:58:55,800 --> 00:59:01,480
Speaker 1: She Kelsey Plump? She's playing. When you said Kelsey, immediately

1280
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 1: thought of Kelsey.

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Speaker 3: Interesting, Travis.

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00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 1: I'm happy about that. Travis doesn't he isn't he busy podcasting?

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Speaker 2: He does podcast?

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Speaker 1: Brother Jason, that's who looks like our Jason.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, embrace the pig skinned people.