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Speaker 2: It's up on YouTube, the No Buffs feed and of

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Speaker 2: course the No Bufs podcast feed. And this weekend, in

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Speaker 2: this very feed, in anticipation of Fast X, which is

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Speaker 2: right around the corner, we have been re releasing our

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Speaker 2: old Fast Friends episodes from a couple summers ago, and

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Speaker 2: so the next installment it drops this week on deck.

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Speaker 2: It is the Fate of the Furious. Some other people

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Speaker 2: call it f eight. So we talk about this one

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Speaker 2: with the whole gang there, that's right, the franchise. We

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Speaker 2: more like two. So anyway, if you've been following along

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Speaker 2: or maybe re listening to these, keep your ears open

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Speaker 2: for another Fast Friends dropping in your Feet on today's pod.

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Speaker 2: On today's drop, we're gonna preview and predict three second

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Speaker 2: round series. Yes, we are into the semifinals in a

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Speaker 2: lot of these, so we'll get into them, break them down,

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Speaker 2: talk about things to watch for X factors, make our predictions.

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Speaker 2: We'll also look ahead just briefly to tonight's two game

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Speaker 2: six's in California and whether those wrap up in LA

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Speaker 2: one game on last night, Celtics pulling away late beat

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Speaker 2: the Hawks got one for the four to two series win.

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Speaker 1: T Wo Tesh.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, Well, I will say the Hawks represented themselves well

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Speaker 3: I thought the Celtics just adapted really quickly after giving

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Speaker 3: That d was really good on Trey.

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Speaker 2: Now they were down by three late, fairly late in

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Speaker 2: It was three three pointers from three different guys and

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Speaker 2: I know Tatum's got some like pretty good dunks like

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Speaker 2: He got way high on that one, and that gave

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Speaker 4: The eleven zero round was huge. The defense really showed up,

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Speaker 4: I thought, in the fourth quarter and really in the

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Speaker 4: Trey was awesome in the first half, de Jontay Murray

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Speaker 1: He put together a solid half, but Tray went cold.

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Speaker 4: he completely made it back to his team boneheaded stuff

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Speaker 4: Game five. They didn't go away from Jalen Brown in

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Speaker 4: In the last six minutes of the loss last night,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this was the ultimate Marcus Smart experience in this game, right.

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Speaker 2: He finished with twenty two points and he was running

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Speaker 2: But it didn't start well. When he came back in

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Speaker 2: him wide open. Hey have another one. He missed that

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Speaker 2: it should be white, maybe it should be brogged in. Okay,

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Speaker 2: and like you guys, just went through hit a huge three,

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Speaker 2: had a great pass to Horford in the corner, and

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Speaker 2: like made up for it all, and that's totally that's

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Speaker 2: Marcus Smart right there, and like that's why you understand,

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Speaker 2: like why a coach continues to go to him, especially

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Speaker 2: just overly aggressive. He'll miss some shots time to time

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Speaker 2: he's done that a million times before.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they tried to take away the Stars. Quinn Syder said, Okay,

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Speaker 3: we get the ball in the middle and find Horford

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Speaker 3: need every five possible to deal with Joel EMBII. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was a good game for the Hawks. Really, I

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Speaker 3: thought the Stars were just starring for the Boston Celtics.

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Speaker 3: They got twenty four second chance points. The Hawks did

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Speaker 3: twenty eight assists to ten turnovers. Nice, and but then

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Speaker 3: Brown and Tatum over thirty for both of them. They

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Speaker 3: just don't lose when that happens. ESPN Chow the graphic

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Speaker 3: they're twenty three and one when they both score thirty

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Speaker 3: think that that the Hawks woke this team up, that's

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Speaker 2: I mean, they definitely made a concerted effort the Celtics

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Speaker 2: the second half, like there was just a lid on

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Speaker 2: John Collins balling John, Oh my god, did he help

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Speaker 2: his trade value? Over the last couple of games here

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Speaker 1: I think I.

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Speaker 2: Think he might be they should trade him right this second,

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Speaker 2: because he's was coming through and had a decent game.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, in the end, the Celtics move on in six.

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Speaker 2: Probably took a game or two longer than a lot

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Speaker 2: very weird season? A little bit for the Hawks here obviously,

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Speaker 3: Now, let's overreact to one game or two. Sure, I

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Speaker 1: Mid season? They were fighting and that's the important thing.

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Speaker 1: There are ways.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's gonna be tough for the Hawks to get

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Speaker 1: We'll see what they do with Collins.

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Speaker 4: Capella is a guy I think who could be traded

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Speaker 4: But at least they had a spark in these last

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Speaker 2: Did we witness the ugliest inbound sequence in NBA history

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Speaker 1: Can we go over this quickly?

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Speaker 2: Down one twenty six to one twenty nineteen seconds or

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Speaker 2: They needed to score here. So then after Trey couldn't

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Speaker 2: get it in, they go to DeAndre Hunter. He takes

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Speaker 1: In a weird way.

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Speaker 3: You say, you say the Hawks failed four times, but

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Speaker 3: I think they succeeded the first three times throwing it

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Speaker 2: You know, Trey felt bad about that.

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Speaker 1: This is pretty funny. I throw it at me.

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Speaker 3: always that tough spot to be on that corner, to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he saw the other end of the court had

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Speaker 1: I'll just throw it there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a bad look.

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Speaker 4: Quinn Snyder doesn't he have like one of the biggest

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Speaker 1: Just can't guess.

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Speaker 3: I guess.

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Speaker 2: I guess he was like in the list of priorities

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Speaker 1: He was like, we'll get to that. We won't have

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Speaker 3: I gotta worry about especially after three attempts. Maybe on

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Speaker 3: the fourth attempt they had they had a time out.

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Speaker 1: Right, like yeah, but he definitely Yeah, they wanted to

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Speaker 1: save it. I guess was the idea because there clearly

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Speaker 1: that was the time to use it. Well, you can't

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Speaker 1: Just get the Daal ball in.

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Speaker 2: Hit a three, then we got a foul and then

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Speaker 2: we can use the timeout and all that, maybe give

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Speaker 1: But yeah, very very very funny.

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Speaker 2: We're too, especially with a game like you know, it's

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Speaker 2: a pretty late start here in Atlanta, was like post

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Speaker 2: eight thirty pm Eastern. It was getting late in the

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Speaker 2: night game. Wasn't that all that fast? And you still

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Speaker 1: My god, what the hell's going on here? I'd be okay.

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Speaker 2: Seventy six ers Celtics officially the matchup in the Eastern

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Speaker 2: Conference Semifinals, Game one of this series except for Monday

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Speaker 2: night at the TD Garden in Boston. Here's a look

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Speaker 2: at both teams first round victories there and you know

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Speaker 2: the regular season rankings when it comes to offensive and

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Speaker 2: defensive ratings. Thanks to a pretty balanced attack, the Celtics

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Speaker 2: let's break it down. Celtics sixers. We knew we were

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Speaker 2: going to get this. What's one thing to watch?

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Speaker 3: Task gets started, Well, it's gotta start with draw Embiid.

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Speaker 3: Let's just get that out there. My primary question is

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Speaker 3: gonna do let's get obviously their question is will he

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Speaker 3: play basketball? How healthy will he be? But I do

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Speaker 3: he wants to play mind games. I'm just putting that

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Speaker 3: if he goes on to win m.

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Speaker 1: VP, they're gonna give it to him before the game.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna he's gonna say, I don't want to do that.

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Speaker 2: A guy that's only one of the m v P

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Speaker 2: for the last three or four you're gonna get it.

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Speaker 1: Don't give it to me.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna get it from whoever gives it to him,

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Speaker 3: and you know, in some sort of practice. I think

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Speaker 3: he's not gonna do it in front of his fans.

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Speaker 3: That's all just throwing that out there.

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Speaker 1: Is gonna play.

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Speaker 4: Last year there was a lot of like sneaky awards

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Speaker 4: and like they're like, oh, look check this out.

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Speaker 1: You got a six Man of the Year trophy. HM,

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Speaker 1: as many secrets this year?

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Speaker 3: No, we need a trick.

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Speaker 1: Is he gonna play in Game one?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think so he's gonna play brained?

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Speaker 2: Rightne oh, you think this is all gamesmanship here.

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Speaker 3: From Doc eight days off.

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Speaker 1: Even longer by the time they play, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well because he was off, yeah, eight days in between

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Speaker 1: He hasn't played since Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's had a couple extra days, right, because

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Speaker 3: he didn't play in Game four of that series. But

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Speaker 3: it's not just about him play. He's got to play,

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Speaker 3: damn well. Yeah, and he's got to play for a

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Speaker 3: lot of minutes because the non minutes, the non embid

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Speaker 3: in Round one, but this is a different Celtics defense,

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Speaker 3: so he's got to be great. And who's he going

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Speaker 3: to play against? I think I think they'll just try

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Speaker 3: easily start Robert Williams like they did in their postseason

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Speaker 3: run last year, and then you're gonna see him banging

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Speaker 3: Grant Williams from time to time as well. In the

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Speaker 3: game that they won this year against the Celtics. Celtics

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Speaker 3: had won four streight against them before that game. He

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Speaker 3: dropped fifty two. That was a cool fifty two. So

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Speaker 3: I mean not that he has to drop fifty, but

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Speaker 3: he has to be he has to be awesome in

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Speaker 3: got to be healthy. Can't be rusty to start because

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Speaker 3: of all those days off. Yeah, just strictly one on one.

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Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to that matchup.

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Speaker 2: What they've done a little bit ly, a little bit differently,

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Speaker 2: It is get them at the free throw line and

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Speaker 2: let him operate there all season long, especially against Boston,

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Speaker 2: and I think that's we'll see that again.

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Speaker 1: Though.

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Speaker 2: My concern is because Horford smart ass defender Grant Williams

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Speaker 2: makes those moves sometimes to the rim. They'll slide over,

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Speaker 2: try and take the charge on the big guy. Bodies

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Speaker 1: It's Embeid.

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Speaker 2: You know they're gonna hit the floor and hopefully he

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Speaker 2: doesn't pick up you know, one or two offensive fouls

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Speaker 2: early in a game that suddenly has to take him

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Speaker 2: one question with this series. Is he playing in Game one?

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Speaker 2: You guys think so? And then how does he look?

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Speaker 1: And will he get injured again?

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately when it comes to him and this sprain right

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Speaker 1: So that's huge.

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Speaker 2: I forgot that he missed last the first two games

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Speaker 2: of last year's second round series against Miami that they

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Speaker 2: ultimately lost, got his face broke sick. See that's right

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Speaker 2: in the series prior against yep. But what do you

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Speaker 4: Health is the biggest question Embiid and Harden. Harden didn't

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Speaker 4: he was just hot from three, but finishing inside wasn't

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Speaker 4: line wasn't really happening for James Harden. Tyrese Maxey was

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Speaker 4: doesn't want to take some threes. He was very good

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Speaker 4: Smart we just talked about peaks and valleys for Marcus Smart.

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Speaker 4: But I think if Philly's gonna win this series, Harden's

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Speaker 4: And then Maxy has to be as good as he

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Speaker 4: Somebody's got to do it. Maxi was ready to step up,

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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I have Maxi written down here as well.

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Speaker 2: you care at all, Maxi, he ever ten points per game,

441
00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:55,320
Speaker 2: shot thirty five percent in the series against the Celtics,

442
00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:58,000
Speaker 2: twenty one percent from deep because they have too many guys,

443
00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,399
Speaker 2: and the other part is they like to try and

444
00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,400
Speaker 2: play and be as straight up as possible with their

445
00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:06,680
Speaker 2: big so obviously there's not guys like falling in and

446
00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,560
Speaker 2: you know, doubling him like that, so less room for

447
00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:11,840
Speaker 2: him to operate. But he was awesome thirty three points

448
00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,400
Speaker 2: in Game two against the Nets. He won them Game

449
00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,280
Speaker 2: three at the end. So he'll need to continue, especially

450
00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,360
Speaker 2: if Harden can't finish at the rim like we saw

451
00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:22,920
Speaker 2: in that Net series that was a little weird, had

452
00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,960
Speaker 2: his moments, but yeah, I'm with you, TK didn't look amazing.

453
00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,240
Speaker 2: So Maxie is very important. I think for them to

454
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Speaker 2: make this a series X factor.

455
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Speaker 3: It's got to be Maxi because Harden wasn't himself in

456
00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,800
Speaker 3: Round one. He wasn't that the Harden I predicted to

457
00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,439
Speaker 3: have his best postseason ever. He was. He struggled from

458
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,800
Speaker 3: two point land. Now the nets were throwing out really

459
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,560
Speaker 3: good long defenders mckel bridges, that was his number one

460
00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,480
Speaker 3: job doing it a nice job against him. But the Celtics,

461
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,560
Speaker 3: as we've said here, do have bodies to throw at him, many, many,

462
00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,520
Speaker 3: many many of them. I think it kind of gets

463
00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:59,840
Speaker 3: swept under the rug because they swept the nets. But

464
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,080
Speaker 3: Harden was just thirty four percent from the floor, twenty

465
00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 3: six percent from two point land. I think that's that's

466
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:09,080
Speaker 3: the important part. That he was great shooting threes actually,

467
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 3: but when he got into the lane, he just didn't

468
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,200
Speaker 3: look quick. He wasn't getting to the free throw line.

469
00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,920
Speaker 3: It's just a very unheardened like two point eight free

470
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,760
Speaker 3: throws per game from the field in round one, maybe

471
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Speaker 3: saving it for round two. The speed, the burst. But

472
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000
Speaker 3: it's gonna be Derek White, it's going to be Marcus Smart,

473
00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,760
Speaker 3: then a Brown, then a Tatum, then a Broagden. They're

474
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Speaker 3: gonna throw a lot of bodies.

475
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Speaker 4: Uh.

476
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Speaker 3: And there's just a lot on Harden and trickle down

477
00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:37,560
Speaker 3: effect Maxi because PJ. Tucker's not going to score a

478
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Speaker 3: lot in that starting lineup. So Maxi, who was up

479
00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,040
Speaker 3: and down in round one, definitely came through. It's just

480
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:46,840
Speaker 3: it's it's going to escalate in this series. You got

481
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,320
Speaker 3: to come through because the Celtics offense is probably going

482
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,840
Speaker 3: to be really, really good. So some consistency from the

483
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:52,919
Speaker 3: Sixers backcourt.

484
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Speaker 1: As we've all said, who do you got or what

485
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:56,200
Speaker 1: do you have? As an X factor?

486
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Speaker 4: The Anthony Melton and Tobias Harris I think are big

487
00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,680
Speaker 4: X factors part Take UH in this series. They're both

488
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,359
Speaker 4: active the defenders. Tobias Harris was really really good against

489
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,080
Speaker 4: the nets. He was Garden Bridges a lot. He was

490
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 4: Garden Cam Johnson a lot. Melton he's a disruptive kind

491
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 4: of player. One of the Achilles Heels for the Celtics

492
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 4: these past few seasons are turnovers and that's where Melton thrives.

493
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,680
Speaker 4: He's a Jalen Brown type character where he's really good

494
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 4: at turning defense into offense. So I think that they

495
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,040
Speaker 4: need to be as good as they were in Round

496
00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,359
Speaker 4: one defensively, but you got to get a little bit

497
00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,920
Speaker 4: offensively from Harris and from Melton hitting open shots because

498
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 4: they're surely going to be there.

499
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Speaker 1: I think PJ.

500
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Speaker 4: Tucker is going to get a bunch of looks in

501
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,360
Speaker 4: this series. He's got to knock him down.

502
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:39,520
Speaker 2: And he hit a bunch of late threes in the

503
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,119
Speaker 2: final regular season game in the one where yeah, a

504
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 2: bead went off, right, I'm pretty sure he did in

505
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Speaker 2: the corner there.

506
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Speaker 1: He can get hot.

507
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, he can hit some shots. And we know the

508
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 4: Celtics are going to get him up. So the Philadelphia

509
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,159
Speaker 4: was one of the best three point shooting teams in

510
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 4: the league this year. They got to knock him down.

511
00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 4: So Melton Harris, PJ. Tucker and maybe even Jaalen McDaniels

512
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 4: gets a little bit of a run here, just because

513
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,160
Speaker 4: they're gonna need the athleticism to keep up with Boston.

514
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have Tobias Harris. He was phenomenal in the

515
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 2: first round. It got overlooked, I think because it was

516
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 2: sort of a boring series, but he shot fifty seven

517
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,119
Speaker 2: percent from deep the lights out.

518
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: But the question with Tobias.

519
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 2: Harris, it always has been through his career, is like

520
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 2: can he sustain that type of production? Can he continue

521
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Speaker 2: to do it? Because if you go and check, he's

522
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,120
Speaker 2: sort of always been like a sneaky good first round

523
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,879
Speaker 2: guy in a lot of postseason matchups and sort of

524
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,440
Speaker 2: tails off as maybe the competition gets a little stronger

525
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,359
Speaker 2: and maybe teams focus in on him a little bit better.

526
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 2: So the semi finals, like they start to go like that.

527
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,679
Speaker 2: I know they definitely like they fell off a cliff

528
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 2: way back against the Raptors and stuff like that. So

529
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 2: he'll need to continue to hit these shots and put

530
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 2: some pressure on there and be out there playing a

531
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 2: little good defense like he did in round one. So

532
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 2: Tobias Harris for me a bit of an X factor

533
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 2: for helping the Sixers pull this off. Prediction time or

534
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:55,160
Speaker 2: final thoughts, What do you got?

535
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Speaker 1: Where are you going?

536
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Speaker 3: Well? I do like how the Celtics got a good

537
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 3: fight against the Hawks and round one, not only for

538
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,239
Speaker 3: their team to wake up and play with urgency a lot,

539
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 3: but also for their rookie coach and Joe Mazoola. I

540
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 3: think that helped him realize I got a play call, quicker,

541
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,320
Speaker 3: I gotta make adjustments quicker, I got to call timeouts quicker.

542
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 3: And I think he from Game five to Game six

543
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 3: that that helped. I think we keep talking about him

544
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 3: beat healthy and scoring a lot. He's too talented not to.

545
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 3: But also defensively, they're gonna make him work, and I'm

546
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 3: it's just a lot. It's just a lot on that guy.

547
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 3: So I think they start Horford to spread out the

548
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,919
Speaker 3: Sixers defense, which is a good defense, but Horford what

549
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 3: will be there and they're going to make that four

550
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 3: on three happen if they try to get the ball

551
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,479
Speaker 3: out of the JS hands. So I think the Celtics

552
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 3: should be favored in this series, and so much on

553
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:50,439
Speaker 3: the health of embeat And as you said, Harden, I

554
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 3: go six Celtics and.

555
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 1: Six what about you?

556
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 4: Is this the stern Conference finals after Milwaukee goes.

557
00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:58,880
Speaker 1: He's gone.

558
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,400
Speaker 4: The Celtics were the best team in the league for

559
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 4: three quarters of the season. Philly was the best team

560
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 4: in the league for three quarters of the season.

561
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: I think.

562
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 2: I mean, look, probably yes, is the answer to your question.

563
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 2: But the Nixon Heat both played I know, at least

564
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:18,159
Speaker 2: the Celtics really well during the regular season, so I

565
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 2: don't think they would get waxed either of these teams

566
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,120
Speaker 2: in a in what will be a conference finals. But yeah,

567
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 2: the favorite is this is in this scroup period.

568
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 3: They both have home court advantage against the Western Conference

569
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 3: if they get that's.

570
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 1: True, that's true.

571
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:32,200
Speaker 5: There you go.

572
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 4: Well, I think that the seventy six Ers are gonna

573
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,400
Speaker 4: have the best player in this series, Joel Embiid. He's

574
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,400
Speaker 4: gonna win MVP unless Tim bon Temps's leak was correct

575
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 4: and Al Horford used to be the Embiid stopper, not anymore.

576
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,880
Speaker 4: Embiid has completely figured it out. They were point five

577
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,880
Speaker 4: seconds from having another victory over the Celtics this year

578
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 4: on that three quarter court shot. Then he obviously hung

579
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 4: fifty two on him. Embiid is gonna get his definitely

580
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:00,400
Speaker 4: be the best player in this series. But I think

581
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 4: Boston probably as like the next four best players, unless

582
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 4: James Harden can get to a level that we haven't

583
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,719
Speaker 4: seen quite yet in the playoffs. So far as I'm

584
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 4: a task, I'm going Celtics in six here hmm in

585
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 4: six hmm.

586
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 2: Okay, So you're not as concerned about how the Celtics

587
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 2: may be played at times versus the Hawks, because there

588
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 2: were some warriorsome things, and not that the Sixers looked

589
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 2: like dumb in a sweep against the Nets either.

590
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: You know, there were a couple of things as well,

591
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: but like the.

592
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 2: Hawks, guards definitely went at El Horford and I had

593
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 2: a lot of success at that. So I wonder how

594
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 2: much action. Obviously, the Sixers will try and include him

595
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,119
Speaker 2: on that end because you know Howford's gonna play, and

596
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 2: he's got to play against embiid.

597
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 1: When they went.

598
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,919
Speaker 2: Smaller Boston, they got killed by the Hawks on the glass.

599
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 2: We'll see whether or not that comes into play here.

600
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 2: And Missoula did look a little over.

601
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: His head at times.

602
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 2: Now then again, you got Doc Rivers as the other coach,

603
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 2: but he's like trying to find out a consistent rotation

604
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 2: and you know, like you said, he was learning on

605
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 2: the fly. Here was his first real playoff matchup as

606
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 2: the main guy. But I wonder if that's like a

607
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 2: tiny bit of a check to the Sixers. But in

608
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 2: the end, I'm coming back to like the Celtics high

609
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 2: volume three point shooters you have. You say in Bed

610
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 2: will probably be the best player in the series. That's

611
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 2: probably true, But then my god, Tatum and Brown, like

612
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,439
Speaker 2: a couple of games in this series, they will be

613
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 2: one of them, if not both of them. And then

614
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 2: you just have like two sets. It feels like of

615
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 2: defensive minded backcourt players to slow a Maxi and Harden

616
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 2: like I mean two sets, it's like they're starters and

617
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,679
Speaker 2: then they're guys they bring off the bench are no slouch,

618
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,959
Speaker 2: so they're like tailor made in a weird way here too.

619
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,439
Speaker 2: I think take care of the Sixers. They can exploit

620
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 2: their weaknesses. So I'm agreeing with you guys, and on

621
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 2: Celtics in six as well.

622
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: Six to six to six.

623
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Speaker 2: Everybody taking the Beantown boys. But people are all over

624
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 2: the map on this one. They think this could be

625
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 2: the year of the Sixers get it done against them.

626
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 2: People say the Celtics are going to like wax them

627
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 2: like it's all over the map here and be It's

628
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 2: hell is a major major issue. I hope he plays

629
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 2: in Game one. I hope everybody's basically full squads for

630
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 2: this one. It will be a little bit more competitive.

631
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 4: He's been talking all season long about not missing playoff

632
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 4: games with freak injuries, because that's what he called it.

633
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 4: Like getting hit in the face by Pascal Siakam. That's yeah,

634
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 4: not anything that's a problem within bead, right, you just

635
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 4: got hit in the face. This one's a little bit different.

636
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 4: But I mean, he's gonna have more than a week

637
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,920
Speaker 4: to sit. He's gotta play. It's absolutely gonna play.

638
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: Hopefully he does.

639
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 2: We've got Celtics in six You tell us, though, what's

640
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:35,200
Speaker 2: your prediction for Celtics sixers that get started on Monday night.

641
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break.

642
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 2: When we come back, We'll look at two of the

643
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 2: other second round series that we know and get into

644
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 2: the Nuggets, Suns and the heat Knicks.

645
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 1: Can you believe it? Don't go anywhere.

646
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 2: Love to see the stream team chiming in on the

647
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 2: Celtics sixers series, everybody making the predictions, talking about the

648
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 2: X factors.

649
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: Keep it going.

650
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,479
Speaker 2: Make sure you hit the like button though while you're

651
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 2: at it, and subscribe to No Dunks. Let's get into

652
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 2: some more series. It's time to run back Nuggets Suns,

653
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 2: both teams winning their respective first round series for to one,

654
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 2: and now they face each other in the Western Conference

655
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 2: semifinals with a trip to the West Finals on the line.

656
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 2: Although these teams faced off in the regular season four

657
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Speaker 2: times and both teams won twice, Durant wasn't a member

658
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Speaker 2: of the Suns when Denver beat them prior to the

659
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 2: All Star Break, and when the clubs clashed late in

660
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 2: the season, Jokic was out of the lineup due to

661
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 2: a calf injury. So what I'm saying is you take

662
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 2: that regular season split and you throw it the half out.

663
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean a thing. Can't throw it out, skeets good.

664
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 4: I think this regular season matters the least to this

665
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 4: playoffs more than ever. Like, why even look at what

666
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 4: happened the regular season. Most guys were sitting out as

667
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 4: we saw with the heat. You don't even have to

668
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 4: play during the regular season. Just turn it on in

669
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 4: the last month. That's really all that matters.

670
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 2: And just like big moves for the Lakers at the

671
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 2: deadline and coaching changes in some of these teams.

672
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: And yet, no, you're not wrong.

673
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I don't think Michael. I don't think

674
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 3: Jokic was even hurt. I think Michael Mullan just said

675
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 3: we ain't showing you Jokic in letting you defend him.

676
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 2: Now, well, it's one thing to watch. Then in Nuggets Suns,

677
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 2: which should be a high octane offense series, yea series.

678
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 3: Yes, and let's just watch offense. I think all the

679
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 3: big name players got really good matchups for them. Booker

680
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 3: versus Jamal Murray. That's that's gonna be tough for both guys.

681
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 3: I mean, whoever tries to take a turn on Devin Bookers.

682
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 3: The same goes for Jamal Murray. Murray showed that he's

683
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 3: looking great twenty seven in the first series, and Booker

684
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 3: showed that he's freaking excellent thirty seven, So you know,

685
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 3: Ksep can run around and try and get him. But

686
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 3: those two I think have a really, really good matchups.

687
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 3: Durant has a good matchup against every human who's ever

688
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 3: tried to defend him, and Jokic too. I think Jokic

689
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 3: versus eight and probably what we're is gonna wear the

690
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 3: series will be answered really because Ayton, if he does

691
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,959
Speaker 3: a good job defensively, and Jokic, who they're going to

692
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 3: try and make work on the defensive end, can't do

693
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 3: a lot there, can't bored enough. That's where it will

694
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 3: come down to. But Jokic has a lot on his shoulders.

695
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 3: But I think he can score against Ayton. He showed

696
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 3: it when they played two years ago that he could.

697
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 3: It was a suite for the Suns. It's a very

698
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 3: different team with Jamal Murray back there and just a

699
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 3: grown up Nuggets team. But Jokic is gonna have to

700
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 3: guard in space out there against the Sun's mid range shooters.

701
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 3: And I think he'll put up a lot of points.

702
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 3: Are a lot of them, because I think he showed

703
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 3: in the first round against Minnesota. He's got no problem

704
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 3: now shooting thirty times a game if he needs to,

705
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 3: so one hundred and fifty to one and forty every night. Sure,

706
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 3: there's gonna be a lot of points put up.

707
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: What do you think?

708
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 4: I'm excited to see who the best player on the

709
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 4: court is in this series. You got a two time

710
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 4: MVP in Nikola Jokic, Devin Booker's probably been the best

711
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 4: player in the playoff so far, and Kevin Durant when

712
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 4: he's healthy for two months, looks like the best player

713
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 4: in basketball. And those three are going up against each other,

714
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 4: it's gonna be really, really exciting. And like you're saying, Test,

715
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 4: there are interesting matchups on both ends. One thing I'm

716
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 4: also gonna be concerned with on the Nuggets is defending

717
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 4: pick and roll.

718
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: They like to play a drop coverage.

719
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 4: We saw when the Nuts lost to the Suns a

720
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 4: couple of seasons ago. Mid Ranch jumpers to death, and

721
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 4: that's gonna be a problem if Yogic just playing and

722
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 4: then drop because you got Devin Booker shooting those jumpers.

723
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 4: You got Kevin Durant shooting those jumpers, you got Chris

724
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 4: Paul likely in the fourth quarter. They could get midtied

725
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 4: to death in this one, especially if they're going to

726
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 4: roll out there with MPJ and nicoleie Hokich, two of

727
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 4: their top five players, two of their starters, but also

728
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 4: guys who can kind of be flammable in a pick

729
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 4: and roll situation. So it's gonna be interesting to see

730
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 4: if the Nuggets have any tricks up their sleeve for

731
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 4: shutting down an offense this high powered.

732
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Suns are cooking with inside the three point line.

733
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 2: Great stat from Schumann here in breaking down this series.

734
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 2: In the first round series against the Clippers, the Suns

735
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 2: took only twenty seven point three percent of their shots

736
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 2: from three. That is an insanely low number in today's

737
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 2: NBA game, lowest rate in the playoffs by a wide margin,

738
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 2: and the lowest rate for any team in any series

739
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 2: in the last four postseasons. Again, this is from Shoe

740
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 2: at NBA dot com.

741
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: But here's the thing.

742
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 2: The Nuggets are actually not a high volume three point

743
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 2: shooting team either, so you know they took more a

744
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 2: higher rate thirty six point nine percent in their series,

745
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 2: but that was still the fourth lowest in the first

746
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 2: round when you compare them against all these other teams.

747
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean keep an eye on that. That

748
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 2: three point you know line in the box score attempts

749
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 2: obviously makes gonna come into play. There's been a math

750
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 2: involved in that one. So who will be getting them

751
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 2: up more, who will feel comfortable, who will push the

752
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 2: team to take them more because we know the Suns

753
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 2: definitely they just want to operate where they're comfortable. That's

754
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 2: you know, eighteen sixteen feet and then obviously attacking the

755
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 2: rim here. But the way the Nugget play defense can

756
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 2: be fascinating. I love this matchup so much.

757
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 3: X factor in this well, yeah, just on the maths there,

758
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 3: I think that's what it's gonna come down to. It's

759
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 3: the Nuggets will get up more threes, but they're also

760
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 3: going to be shooting more at the rim, so they

761
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,240
Speaker 3: should get easier shots. I think those those two factors

762
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 3: are in the nuggets favor Those are the two zones.

763
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 3: So the maths, Although the Suns are going to shoot

764
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:24,760
Speaker 3: free throws because those dudes get felt because they're so skilled.

765
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 3: But yeah, mid range versus the three and the rim.

766
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 3: The heat the heat maps is really what you got

767
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 3: to be watching here. And yeah, and how much those

768
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 3: Suns are going to play. All those starters, they play

769
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 3: a lot because they don't trust their bench. And yeah,

770
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 3: they are getting a little bit older, but mostly Chris

771
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 3: Paul and maybe maybe Durant Drench should be able to

772
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,280
Speaker 3: hold up, no problem. But yeah, the yeah, the depth

773
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 3: and the numbers. Unfortunately, that's what I'm talking about. It's

774
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 3: not fun, not fun to talk about that, but yeah,

775
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 3: that's I think all all again, all the stars have

776
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 3: favorable matchups, they're they're all going to score so much,

777
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 3: and it might come down to the gritty, more possessions

778
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 3: where the Nuggets should have more boards and are there

779
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 3: the bigger team overall? And yeah, they showed that they

780
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 3: could play pretty ugly against a Minnesota Timberwolves monstrous frontline.

781
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 3: And this is a very different front line for the

782
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 3: Phoenix Sun. So I think it could be one there

783
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 3: with just extra possessions, a.

784
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 4: Lot of responsibility for DeAndre and then this one, he's

785
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 4: got to try to not get destroyed one on one,

786
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 4: which honestly, good luck Jokic whooped him in twenty twenty one,

787
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 4: put forty one, fifteen and fifteen on him on Christmas Day.

788
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 4: Got to hit the glass, can't fall because then you're

789
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 4: looking at a Bismack Byambo, which honestly might be a

790
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 4: fair choice because he's a strong dude, can take some

791
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 4: bumps against Jokic. The bench is interesting. Neither team has

792
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 4: a good bench. They got one guy who they can play.

793
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 4: It's Josha Koge maybe for the Sun's campaign. I guess

794
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 4: he came back. He would be helpful. And then it's

795
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 4: browns and Green for the Nuggets. Two Browns, one green.

796
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 4: But the ultimate X factor is Michael Porter Junior in

797
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 4: this one.

798
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: He's got to hit threes. He's a great shooter.

799
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 4: We saw him make other plays down the stretch and

800
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 4: their win in Game five. They need him to get

801
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 4: on the glass and rebound because extra possessions will certainly help.

802
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 4: He's gonna have favorable matchups because I imagine people will

803
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 4: probably get hidden on Michael Porter Junior, maybe Aaron Gordon

804
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 4: as well. And then Chris Paul, I think is kind

805
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 4: of a bit of an X factor here. Can he

806
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 4: guard Jamal Murray? Probably not for an entire game, and

807
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 4: if not, maybe he hides on Michael.

808
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: Porter Junior, but then Michael Porter Junior just.

809
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 4: Shoot right over him. So those are two guys. Whoever

810
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 4: plays better between MPJ and Chris Paul. That could be

811
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:49,760
Speaker 4: the series.

812
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael Porter Junior, we're in sync on this one.

813
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 2: We've been talking about for a while. He feels like

814
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 2: the ultimate X factor to the championship, Like if he

815
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 2: plays at the level at times he's shown, could win

816
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 2: this whole thing. He had a decent round there in

817
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 2: those five games against the Wolves. Sixteen points, eight boards,

818
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 2: you know, assist a steal shot well though from three

819
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 2: forty two percent, basically hitting three a game, and they're

820
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 2: gonna need every one of those. And to the Chris

821
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 2: Paul thing too, like where he is put defensively. Also,

822
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 2: we saw in the series they just played the recipe

823
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 2: to play the Suns. Was like, all right, we gotta

824
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 2: let Chris Paul shoot. The guy's not on fire right now.

825
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 2: He's obviously getting up there in age and we got

826
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 2: to live or die with that. But he picks his spots.

827
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,439
Speaker 2: He'll come through in clutch situations, but he will go cold,

828
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 2: and I wonder like we'll see a little bit of

829
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 2: that defensive strategy from the Nuggets here again in terms

830
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 2: of like, all right, we'll try and take away Durant,

831
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 2: We'll try our best to throw bodies at Booker and

832
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 2: make life difficult. We've got some defenders we think can

833
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 2: maybe do that, especially in KCP. So Chris Paul's gonna

834
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 2: get his looks this this will be this one. I

835
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 2: don't know where to go on this one. As we

836
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 2: get to our prediction here, I've gone back and forth

837
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,479
Speaker 2: on who's winning this series. It's very possible the winner

838
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 2: of this one, Trey, like you said in the Hey,

839
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 2: is the winner of the Celtic Sixers, the one the

840
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 2: team going through to the finals from there, you know,

841
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 2: from their conference, could be the case here in Nugget Suns.

842
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, where are you going? I just like the evaluating

843
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 3: of the Sixers and Celtics. I some people just think

844
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:19,800
Speaker 3: that Mbid will get there, and I just kind of

845
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 3: think Jokic will get there. That's part of it. I

846
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 3: think he'll be a monster. He learned in that twenty

847
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 3: twenty one series where he got ejected and his team

848
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 3: got swept that he's got to be responsible and I

849
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 3: think he's got a good matchup against Ayton. I think

850
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 3: it's really going to fall down to him and him

851
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 3: being pretty active defensively, which is a very very very

852
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 3: very tall ask of him, and they've there's another tall

853
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 3: guy on the other team that I mean, we're kind

854
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 3: of overlooking Kevin Durant to some degree, like he could

855
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,320
Speaker 3: he could just light on fire, yeah for forty points.

856
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 3: But his former teammate Jeff Green is gonna come off

857
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 3: the bench and do something against him. I don't know.

858
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 3: I mean, it's tough. It's the Nugg seemingly don't have

859
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 3: a good bench advantage, but they were awesome in round one.

860
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 3: They kicked the Wolves benches ass. They're the second best,

861
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 3: sure for sure. Yeah, but yeah, the double Brown Green

862
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:19,479
Speaker 3: compost bench there. Yeah, Christian Brown, Bruce Brown, Jeff Green.

863
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 3: They did it. They got to do it again because

864
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 3: if they don't have an advantage there, then the Suns

865
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 3: have the advantage most likely. So I'm just, yeah, it's

866
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 3: way up in the air, but I'll take the Nuggets

867
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 3: in seven.

868
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 2: Nuggets in seven, go in the distance, TK, or you

869
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 2: lean in in this one.

870
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: It's funny when you say Jeff Green was his teammate.

871
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 4: That's like everybody he's played with everybody, Chris Paul's teammate

872
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 4: once upon a time as well, somehow never played for

873
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 4: the Suns, though never played with Booker.

874
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: Give it time, Give it time.

875
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 4: Jeff Green would be a perfect veteran to add to

876
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:53,760
Speaker 4: this Sun's team for next season.

877
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,320
Speaker 1: So I'm sure he'll be there and he'll get some minutes.

878
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 3: I don't know.

879
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 4: This one feels like a coin flip. You've got the

880
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,359
Speaker 4: the continuity.

881
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: I guess the nugge.

882
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 4: I guess they've been together with this same starting five

883
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,399
Speaker 4: or a core four of their starting five for quite

884
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 4: some time at this point, but they haven't been able

885
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,479
Speaker 4: to go through it in the playoffs together. I still

886
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,879
Speaker 4: think that matters a little bit compared to a Sun's

887
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 4: team that was just completely thrown together and hasn't really

888
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 4: faced a real team still to this day, they only

889
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,959
Speaker 4: lost one game, though, you're right exactly outside of Game one.

890
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 4: That was when they faced an actual, full strength almost team.

891
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 4: I mean, Paul George wasn't playing, but the Clippers looked

892
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:34,240
Speaker 4: as good as they could give me nuggets in seven,

893
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 4: which is a coward's way of saying it could go

894
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 4: either way.

895
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 2: Oh for sure, for sure, all right, I'll swear of

896
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,280
Speaker 2: on this one. I'm gonna go Phoenix Suns in six.

897
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 2: I'm sort of And we talked about it recently. Like,

898
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 2: as odd as it sounds, Devin Booker is somehow being

899
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 2: overlooked at what he did against the Clippers that were

900
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,359
Speaker 2: shorthanded missing some of their guys. But man, this guy

901
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 2: has done it before in playoff series. Obviously going to

902
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 2: the finals, he's playing the best ball he's ever played.

903
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 2: I believe the level he's at right now, there is

904
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 2: this whole Kevin Durant factor, which, like it is funny

905
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,359
Speaker 2: to say, like we almost forget about that guy because

906
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 2: the Clippers did a job of like we are gonna

907
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 2: make you forget about him because like we're going to

908
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 2: basically trap him and keep him away from the action,

909
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 2: and a lot of the times he's like, all right,

910
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 2: I'll just sit over here for a lot of possessions.

911
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,840
Speaker 2: He would still finish with like twenty five thirty points

912
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 2: because it's Katie and he gets it into sleep. But

913
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 2: I just think there's just gonna be too much offensive firepower,

914
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,839
Speaker 2: the lack of bench. It'll probably lose him.

915
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:27,359
Speaker 1: A game or two here.

916
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 2: Unless, yeah, campaign is suddenly back into it when he

917
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 2: only plays three minutes right at the end of that

918
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 2: series against the Clippers. Josha Kogi will see what he

919
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:36,919
Speaker 2: can give them off the bench, you know, if they're

920
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 2: continuing to start Craig, which I imagine they would, but

921
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 2: it'll be close. But I'll go Sons in six in

922
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 2: a in a very very fun series, but that would

923
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 2: you know. Look, I seek a lot of people will

924
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 2: be picking this one in seven Heman and Han. Where

925
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 2: are you going? Nuggets Suns? Let's hear your prediction and

926
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,240
Speaker 2: something to watch. A next factor in the particular series.

927
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 2: Let's move to the Knicks Heat series. We're going back

928
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 2: to the nineties.

929
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:02,280
Speaker 1: Baby.

930
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:07,800
Speaker 2: They each dispatched their higher seeded opponents in five games

931
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 2: in the first round. And now one of these teams,

932
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,479
Speaker 2: either the fifth seeded Knicks or the eighth seeded Heat,

933
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 2: they're gonna be going to the Eastern Conference finals, which

934
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,879
Speaker 2: is which is exciting in a weird way. Game one

935
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 2: going down this weekend in Madison Square Gardenhimmy Butler in

936
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 2: the Garden. I am pumped through this one, maybe just

937
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 2: as much as I am about the Sun s Nuggets.

938
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: What's one thing to watch Tess.

939
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:36,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it. There's two kinds of people. People say, oh,

940
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 3: the Bucks lost, the NBA sucks, the number one teams

941
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 3: can advance, and the other people who say, oh, parody,

942
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 3: that's cool. I mean, we've sort of been asking for

943
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 3: a long time for the five, six, seven, eight seeds

944
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 3: to be able to knock off the good teams. We're

945
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 3: getting it, so I think that's that's great. We're seeing

946
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 3: we're seeing Celtics sixers and then this series, which should

947
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 3: be battle. They both play slow. It is kind of

948
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 3: like nineties basketball. But the Knicks were so good defensively

949
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 3: against the Calves. They were really good at taking away

950
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 3: Mitchell and forcing the the other Calves to shoot who

951
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 3: didn't want to shoot, and the Heat just became this

952
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 3: new team in Round one where they offensively they couldn't

953
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 3: miss from three. So really it's that it's will the

954
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,879
Speaker 3: Heat be able to keep that up? Just keep up

955
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 3: those threes raining down. We'll get into lineups and all that,

956
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 3: but just the Knicks. I think Tibbs has got him

957
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 3: playing really really well on that end, and we'll see

958
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,799
Speaker 3: from there what the Heat can do offensively. Because they

959
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 3: were they were one of the worst teams in the

960
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 3: league through eighty two games. Does that matter? I mean

961
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 3: they just yeah, eighty three games, eighty.

962
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: Three games and three quarters. They need a fourteen oh

963
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: run to get out of the play in tournament. Yeah,

964
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: it's crazy.

965
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 2: Now they're on fire here. They were against the Bucks.

966
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 2: Will it continue against the from three?

967
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 3: So one of every two b bop? Uh? That was?

968
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 3: That was easy? Is that? And they obviously had Jimmy

969
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 3: leading them. It was it was Jimmy and a sporting

970
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 3: cast that just came along for an incredible ride. Will

971
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 3: that keep up?

972
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: What's one thing? You're watching the glass? Oh? Yeah, I'm

973
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 1: watching the glass Cico. Oh you know, I love rebounding.

974
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 4: There was a Kevon Looney rebounding highlight tape that made

975
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 4: its way around. They I got tagged so many times

976
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 4: and I liked every single one of them.

977
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: So keep it coming.

978
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 4: The Hawks dominated the heat on the glass in their

979
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 4: play and when back when the Miami Heat were a

980
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 4: seventh seed, now they're an eight seed. The Knicks dominated

981
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 4: the calves on the offensive glass. The big boys were

982
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 4: showing their athleticism. So I'm watching Mitchell Robinson versus Bam Autobio.

983
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 4: I don't think the Heat are going to get bullied

984
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 4: the way the Calves got bullied by the next I

985
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 4: also don't think they're going to be out coach the

986
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 4: way the Calves were out coached by the Knicks. I

987
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:08,280
Speaker 4: think if this turns into an ugly nineties style basketball series,

988
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 4: as if everybody's anticipating it, that's good.

989
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 3: For the Heat.

990
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: That's what they want to do. Yeah, they're used to it.

991
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 1: The Calves they weren't used to it. Yeah, they got

992
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: a lot of skinny young guys.

993
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 4: The Heat have a bunch of beefy old guys, and

994
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 4: I think that that is gonna be big time for them.

995
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 4: They want an ugly series because they think when it

996
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 4: comes down to it, it's Jimmy Butler versus Jalen Brunson,

997
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 4: who's gonna make more clutch shots. Surely the Heat are

998
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 4: comfortable with their guy, and I'm sure the Knicks are too.

999
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:37,959
Speaker 1: But Jimmy's Jimmy. He's on one right now.

1000
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:41,240
Speaker 2: Man, Oh my god, Jimmy Butler in medicine square guard

1001
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:44,879
Speaker 2: is gonna be unreal. Oh yeah, you guys, He's making

1002
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:46,840
Speaker 2: great points. Here are exciting things too, like sort of

1003
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 2: circle in this one I think it's telling that, you know,

1004
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 2: I know, I'm not saying Randall is that anywhere close

1005
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 2: to dwell and Beat's level when it comes to like

1006
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 2: players in this league. But that series we're starting with, well,

1007
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 2: what's the health, what's the status of EMBIID? You know,

1008
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 2: we don't even really care. It feels like about Julius

1009
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 2: Randall and his ankle injury and whether he's gonna play.

1010
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 2: And I think what I my point about that is,

1011
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 2: that's because this next team, at least in that first

1012
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 2: round series and really a lot of times through the

1013
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 2: regular season, they've shown how deep they are and how

1014
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 2: talented they are, as like one through eight, really guys

1015
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 2: coming off the bench and contributing and stuff like that.

1016
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 2: And that's so that's that's a positive for them. Are

1017
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 2: they gonna need Randall in some capacity to possibly beat

1018
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 2: the heat? I'm not sure with the way you know,

1019
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 2: Mitchell Rumson dominated will be topping off of the bench,

1020
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 2: Josh Hart obviously the work and he can do on

1021
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 2: the boards, Barrett scoring sort of to make up for

1022
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 2: Randall being out or limited in that series, and then

1023
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 2: of course Jellen brunchin the Rock. I just say, I

1024
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 2: wonder you know, will he play, how important does he

1025
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 2: need to play?

1026
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's odd. It's odd that I'm not

1027
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: sure it matters. Is that strange to say.

1028
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:57,479
Speaker 3: Well, they have they overcame it in round one, so

1029
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 3: they had they're better with him off the floor. Actually

1030
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 3: it was odd because I'll be topping came in and

1031
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 3: it was awesome. But I think he learned how to

1032
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 3: just be a part of the team too when he

1033
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,359
Speaker 3: just slipped in there. Well, he didn't overtake anything there

1034
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:16,399
Speaker 3: in Game five to start that game before he went out.

1035
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 3: I think his size is going to factor into this

1036
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 3: in terms of the boarding because I'm looking at that

1037
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:28,359
Speaker 3: four spot for the Heat. They probably start Kevin Love

1038
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:32,320
Speaker 3: most likely, and it'll be probably Randall versus him and

1039
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:36,239
Speaker 3: Mitchell Robinson versus bam Adebayo. I think the Knicks will

1040
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,280
Speaker 3: have the advantage there in just terms of grabbing boards

1041
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 3: and Jalen Brunson is gonna hunt out Kevin Love, I

1042
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 3: think a lot of the time and try and get

1043
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 3: him in pick and rolls, and Brunson is probably going

1044
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:50,400
Speaker 3: to have a really good series. And I know the

1045
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 3: Heat will do a good job of ganging up, but

1046
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 3: I'm just buying more into the Knicks supporting cast and

1047
00:47:56,239 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 3: the Heat supporting cast that yeah, became magic there in

1048
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 3: round one, both Tips and spoil shirt just calling on

1049
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 3: this dude calling on Cody Zeller, Hey you were You're

1050
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 3: a biot. Come on in, Kevin Love, you're a biout,

1051
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:11,840
Speaker 3: Come on in, and they're they're awesome. I think the

1052
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 3: Knicks do have the depth advantage in this one. And

1053
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 3: uh yeah, at the same time, the Knicks couldn't hit

1054
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 3: shots either, but they made up for it because they

1055
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:21,720
Speaker 3: just grabbed so many boards.

1056
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,320
Speaker 1: So yeah, their offense at time was miss a jumper

1057
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: and Mitchell Romson go get it.

1058
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:30,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, of their shots missed were grabbed as offensive boards.

1059
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 1: That's a lot.

1060
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 3: That's the most in like nine years, So they made

1061
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:35,400
Speaker 3: up for what second chance points. It's gonna be a

1062
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:39,919
Speaker 3: bumping in a grinding, that's for sure. But Brunson could

1063
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 3: have a really big series in this one X.

1064
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 4: Factor for you three point shooting for the Heat because

1065
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 4: I'm with you. The Knicks are a deeper team. They've

1066
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 4: got Quickly who can play top and who can play

1067
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 4: and Isaiah Hartenstein who can.

1068
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 1: Play for the Heat.

1069
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,879
Speaker 4: Though it's like Kevin Love or Caleb Martin coming off

1070
00:48:55,880 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 4: the bench alongside Duncan Robinson, Kyle Lowry. They gotta hit

1071
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,879
Speaker 4: threes for that to be a reliable bench for them

1072
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 4: to negate what the Knicks are surely gonna do.

1073
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:07,959
Speaker 1: They've got to be able to hit.

1074
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 4: Threes, because the Knicks are not a good shooting team,

1075
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 4: no doubt, the Heat are gonna go zone against them

1076
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:14,280
Speaker 4: and say, you shot twenty eight percent from three against

1077
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 4: the Cavs.

1078
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:17,359
Speaker 1: Are you gonna do it again? Can you actually make

1079
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: some shots?

1080
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean, if the Heat aren't hitting threes,

1081
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 4: if their role players are not hitting threes, they ain't

1082
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,399
Speaker 4: role players because they're not really giving you anything else

1083
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 4: out there. But if they're hitting, as we saw against Cleveland,

1084
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 4: they can stay on the court. Or sorry, so sorry

1085
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 4: against the Milwaukee but up, I don't know. Everybody's gotta

1086
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 4: make threes, to be quite honest, it's the new NBA.

1087
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 4: But the Heat gotta do it otherwise they got nothing

1088
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 4: else out there. They don't got Tyler Hero to put

1089
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 4: the ball in his hands and get baskets. Bam does

1090
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 4: it sometimes, but they score a lot of points from

1091
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 4: three points shooting.

1092
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 3: Somehow, the Heat's bench was the best bench in Round one,

1093
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 3: despite what they had to overcome during the offseason or

1094
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:01,720
Speaker 3: the whole regular season, and an hero out Nola Depo,

1095
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 3: they did it. Caleb Martin came in, was a monster.

1096
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 3: He was so big, and yeah, you could you could

1097
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 3: look five years ago and say, oh, Lowry Love. I

1098
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:17,240
Speaker 3: mean they have the names, but they were just perfect

1099
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 3: in round one, will continue in Round two.

1100
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 1: Prediction.

1101
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 3: Then you're going to see so hard. That's so hard.

1102
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 3: I got the Knicks. I just feel it was a

1103
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 3: little too magical for the way the Heat all came

1104
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 3: together perfectly. And obviously they do have Jimmy.

1105
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 1: But he's the ultimate wildcard.

1106
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, but I think Brunson is better. I think

1107
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 3: Randall can't be worse really as far as his shooting goes.

1108
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 3: So yeah, this is the weird one where the Heat

1109
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:51,399
Speaker 3: definitely have the best player in the series. But I'm

1110
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 3: taking the I think the slightly more complete team, So

1111
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 3: I'll take the Knicks in sixts.

1112
00:50:57,600 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: Tray, I'm going the other way.

1113
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,840
Speaker 4: Uh, the Heat have the best player in this series

1114
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 4: in Jimmy Butler. I think the Knicks drew a favorable

1115
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 4: first round matchup and the things that went their way

1116
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:12,799
Speaker 4: in round one will not go their way in round two.

1117
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 4: I also think the Heat have been preparing for this

1118
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 4: the entire season. How many times did we talk about

1119
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 4: them playing five point games?

1120
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:19,279
Speaker 1: The entire year?

1121
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 4: Every single Heat game was close, and Jimmy Butler was

1122
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:25,760
Speaker 4: great in the regular season, finished top three in Clutch

1123
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 4: Player of the Year voting, and he is somehow even

1124
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 4: better in the playoffs.

1125
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:32,360
Speaker 1: I'm going for the Miami Heat.

1126
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:34,319
Speaker 2: And six here, I'm a Heat and six taking care

1127
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 2: of business in South Beach, says Trey. All Right, it's tough.

1128
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go seven. I'm gonna go Nicks in seven

1129
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 2: at home. Obviously in Madison Square Garden. If it were

1130
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 2: to go to that, it's a coin toss.

1131
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 3: To me.

1132
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 2: I feel very similar to the way I felt about

1133
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 2: the Calves Nicks series, where a lot of us thought

1134
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 2: it would go longer, and man, that one feels like

1135
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 2: a coin flip, and Indiana went Calves and I.

1136
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: Was regretting it.

1137
00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:00,319
Speaker 2: Ah, jaylen Brun's the winner. It's gonna be tight, It's

1138
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:03,919
Speaker 2: gonna be ugly at times, in the best possible way,

1139
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 2: I think, especially when you're gonna be contrasting it with

1140
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 2: Sun's Nuggets. In that series, there's gonna be some low

1141
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 2: scoring affairs. But yeah, who are these like peripheral players

1142
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:18,440
Speaker 2: that have a game in the garden or in Miami

1143
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 2: that catch fire for a quarter or two. You know,

1144
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 2: Kyle Lowry could be. Obviously, he's a gamer and we've

1145
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 2: seen that before. Quickly can do it, no doubt. Josh

1146
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:29,840
Speaker 2: Hart obviously the impact he's seen, there's gonna be like

1147
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 2: all these guys that are just gonna swing this series

1148
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 2: like sort of from quarter to quarter, a half to half,

1149
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 2: and ultimately I think game to game, and that's what

1150
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 2: I think always makes the postseason super super fun. And

1151
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 2: can Jimmy Butler just stay on this heater? Or is

1152
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 2: like the defense of the Knicks the way they played

1153
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 2: actually in the first round against the Cavs and locked

1154
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 2: in on Donovan Mitchell? Can they slow this guy?

1155
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I'm pumped about this one. He's going

1156
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:54,759
Speaker 1: against his dad.

1157
00:52:54,880 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 4: Man, My God, Chasing Concepcion sent me an incredible clip

1158
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 4: this week. It was Jeff Tigue talking about the practice

1159
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 4: that Jimmy Butler had when he had all the third

1160
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:12,280
Speaker 4: teamers and he showed up and he schooled everybody crazy,

1161
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:15,359
Speaker 4: like Tibbs one hundred percent. On Jimmy's side, he had

1162
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 4: skipped everything, like he'd skipped every workout. Jimmy shows up,

1163
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,760
Speaker 4: but TIB's hand just starts shaking. He's getting so excited.

1164
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,479
Speaker 4: And then Jimmy completely lights up everybody, and Jeff Teague

1165
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 4: is like, this is awesome. But then I realized he

1166
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:28,760
Speaker 4: was talking about the starters, and I was a starter.

1167
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 4: Jeff Teague was like, I was cheering him on. I

1168
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,279
Speaker 4: don't think to this day Jeff Teague realizes Jimmy was

1169
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 4: trash fucking hand. It was incredible stuff. Those two are

1170
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:40,760
Speaker 4: like locked in with each other. We saw Mike Brown

1171
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:43,800
Speaker 4: did a great job the first couple of games against

1172
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 4: Steph Curry, knowing the ins and outs about how to

1173
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:50,120
Speaker 4: defend him. So I think Tommy will pull some schemes

1174
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 4: out to make it tough on Jimmy.

1175
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:55,840
Speaker 1: But Spoltzer is a better coach than Thomas, and Sponser

1176
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:58,759
Speaker 1: always beats Thomas. That's a good point. I love that.

1177
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 2: I feel like both of these teams will not be

1178
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 2: rattled by each other. That's what I'm anticipating here, at

1179
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,319
Speaker 2: least where in their other series. They got to their

1180
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 2: other teams, obviously the teams that were ranked a little

1181
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:13,839
Speaker 2: bit higher in the standings on them and they put

1182
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 2: their imprint on the series. I think that's gonna be

1183
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 2: like the tug of war here between these squads that

1184
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:23,879
Speaker 2: ferocity and obviously like the barking and all that, there's

1185
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of shit talking. We have so

1186
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 2: many clips from the nineties. We're gonna see Van Gundy

1187
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 2: hanging off legs and stuff like that.

1188
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 1: It's gonna be great. It's gonna be great.

1189
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 2: So, okay, I'm going NIX and seven. You're NIX and six,

1190
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 2: Trey going with Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat in six.

1191
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 2: Let's hear from you guys when it comes to your Knicks,

1192
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 2: heat prediction and something that you're watching. We're gonna take

1193
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:46,759
Speaker 2: our final break when we come back. Some rapid fire fun.

1194
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: All right, back here with no dunks on a Friday.

1195
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 2: It's the Drop Podcast, which means we got to end

1196
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 2: with some rapid fire fun.

1197
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: TK. You got the cues, we got the answers. Let's

1198
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 1: do this.

1199
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 4: Oh one thing I don't have is the order of answers.

1200
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: Some going skeets testing you know, the normal.

1201
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, the way we always basically do it.

1202
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:15,920
Speaker 1: Oh my no, we've only done only over ten years. PJ.

1203
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:18,840
Speaker 4: Tucker told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he's quote not a

1204
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 4: big fan of poutine, the worst in Germany is the worst,

1205
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 4: and that Italian food in America is way better than

1206
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 4: Italian food in Italy.

1207
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: Oh, the man loves pancakes.

1208
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:36,479
Speaker 4: To who he loves pancakes over waffles and French toast.

1209
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 1: This guy's quirzy. But what's your most controversial food takes?

1210
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 2: Skis that celery is criminally underrated.

1211
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 1: I love celery. It's a damn good snack. More people

1212
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 1: should snack on it.

1213
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 4: And you're saying that if you don't have celery in

1214
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:55,479
Speaker 4: your top three vegetables, you should go to jail.

1215
00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:00,800
Speaker 1: This is controversial. It's very fun virtual, but that's a

1216
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:06,320
Speaker 1: stand by cellar. I love crunchy water too.

1217
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:09,279
Speaker 3: Love good water content veggie cucumber. Same same for me.

1218
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:12,240
Speaker 1: I like the texture of a celery though over a cucumber.

1219
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: I just like that crunch Yeah, well I like to

1220
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 1: chomp on the leaves part too.

1221
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:19,319
Speaker 3: Okay, that's too far, that's too far.

1222
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 1: That's controversial. CERAs are better than what.

1223
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:26,040
Speaker 3: About it getting in your teeth?

1224
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:28,799
Speaker 1: What happened like that?

1225
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 2: Just have a nice bowl of celery out. Every time

1226
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 2: you walk by, you grab.

1227
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 3: It's hard to have a nice bowl celery out. It's

1228
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 3: always it always turns yellow a yellow. Yeah, color changes.

1229
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:44,879
Speaker 3: You don't like the leaves and.

1230
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 1: Cold cold water? You said cucumbers though? What you got?

1231
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:51,839
Speaker 1: What I think cucumbers are good? He did.

1232
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 3: Maybe they're crunchy. They're high water content, crunchy, juicy seed

1233
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,160
Speaker 3: at times, depending depending on it.

1234
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: On the cop got a controversial food take.

1235
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 3: No, I got so many good takes. My next take,

1236
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:14,680
Speaker 3: he was just, I've just never you said, the last

1237
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 3: ten years, we've done it one way. The last ten years,

1238
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 3: we've always made rapid fire long. I just needed to add.

1239
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, answer, don't worry, it's gonna get real long. On

1240
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: my final one.

1241
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 3: Okay, we're gonna be this one will be quick. I

1242
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 3: will say that pasta with tuna on top is great.

1243
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you think that's controversial.

1244
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 3: It's tuna castro all over there. What do you what

1245
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 3: do you mean? Like you just a boiler pasta? Yeah,

1246
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 3: just a simple pasta. There needs to be a red

1247
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 3: sauce and tuna that's.

1248
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 1: On that one.

1249
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not, it doesn't. Yeah, like a tin of

1250
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 3: yeah yeah, I mean it's just a simple college person's meal. Really,

1251
00:57:57,320 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 3: it's just so damn simple, but it's so good and

1252
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 3: it really gives you everything you need.

1253
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:05,960
Speaker 4: Turn us an underrated thing to have in your you're

1254
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,000
Speaker 4: talking an oil packed or you're talking water.

1255
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 3: I'm not an oil man. I mean that would be

1256
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 3: nice on the toe, just.

1257
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 1: Like daniela Ann who Daniel playing view. Okay, my friend's dad,

1258
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 1: he's gonna drink your sala.

1259
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 3: Plain view, Daniel playing view. Jd Uh.

1260
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:28,600
Speaker 5: I'm not really into potatoes.

1261
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 1: I can't. That's that. It's a contum's I know, that's

1262
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 1: an insane thing.

1263
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 5: I'm an Irish person too. A baked potato get out

1264
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 5: of here.

1265
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I hear you.

1266
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 5: It's just it's a vehicle for sour cream and bacon.

1267
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 3: But that's it.

1268
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 5: Like it's just butter, doesn't butter black pepper of course.

1269
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:50,439
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah yeah, load it up. But the potato part.

1270
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 5: Actually keep that part of it. I'm just like, even

1271
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 5: like fries, they have to be like super crispy French style,

1272
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:06,479
Speaker 5: you know, like thin and crispy, like practically potato chips.

1273
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying, Like it's got to be crispy,

1274
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:14,720
Speaker 5: but like mashed potatoes, faked potatoes, roasted potato, get out

1275
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 5: of here.

1276
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:21,600
Speaker 1: That's that is. All those potatoes you're naming are bangers,

1277
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 1: all of them.

1278
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 5: I know.

1279
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 1: I'm in the minority, just.

1280
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 5: Like like I roasted potato is. It's so far down

1281
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 5: on the list of things that I would ever.

1282
00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 3: Order or want lived in Greece. I know, I know

1283
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 3: a little lemon of oil and some oregano.

1284
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 5: You know what the problem is, They're so rarely done properly,

1285
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 5: like you, it's real PJ.

1286
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 3: Tucker right now. Yes, I guess, yeah, I hear you.

1287
00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:50,120
Speaker 5: I mean, if I'm in Greece and I'm served roast potatoes,

1288
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 5: they're gonna be good.

1289
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know it's very hard.

1290
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 5: To there's soggy. Usually they're like just an afterthought.

1291
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 3: I was with you on that you hate sweet potatoes.

1292
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 5: Sweet potatoes, get like that's not that's sorry, yeah whatever,

1293
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 5: but actual potatoes.

1294
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 1: Well, shut out to the potato farmers Friday. It's all

1295
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: because of you, guys.

1296
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Speaker 5: That's that's that quote is uttered weekly around here.

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Speaker 4: Jad hates potatoes, but his family eats him every week

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01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:27,200
Speaker 4: so they can keep them as Vernie exactly.

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Speaker 1: I'll do it. I'll eat this terrible potato as long

1300
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 1: as we can get the jokes off. I love it.

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01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:37,040
Speaker 4: Earlier this week, Hawk's coach Quinn Snyder was asked how

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01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 4: intensity builds over the course of a playoff series. He said,

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01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:44,480
Speaker 4: it's like Atlanta traffic. No one lets you merge.

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01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 1: Does this make sense yeah, as an.

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01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 3: Answer, yeah, yeah, I think so. I was literally somebody

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01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:54,439
Speaker 3: said to me the other day's Canadian don't you hate

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01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:55,920
Speaker 3: it down here? People don't let you in?

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01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: And they said, it's okay, come on, that.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't happen, and then talk and then yeah, Quinn Snyder

1310
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 3: back that.

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Speaker 2: More of Atlanta traffic, or people just refusing to use

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01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:10,919
Speaker 2: their signal that they're coming over into a lane.

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01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 1: Just never use it.

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01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:13,280
Speaker 3: You just have to.

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01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 1: You just have to know what they're doing. Well they're going.

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Speaker 3: You're like.

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01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:21,240
Speaker 1: That drives me insane.

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01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:23,000
Speaker 5: It's the epitome of laziness.

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01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 1: It's it's there.

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Speaker 5: That's all you need, that's all you need to.

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Speaker 1: Do, just to let us know you're coming over.

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01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,640
Speaker 2: A little warning would be great, but uh yeah, okay,

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01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:33,920
Speaker 2: so you think it works in the metaphor?

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01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: My favorite Atlanta driving thing is how every exit on

1326
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:41,240
Speaker 4: the highway you can expect somebody to be zooming over

1327
01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:42,919
Speaker 4: from two lanes over because they're like, oh.

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01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:43,479
Speaker 3: That was my exit.

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Speaker 1: I gotta go. I did that.

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Speaker 2: Also, the Interstate is a parking lot in Atlanta. You

1331
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:52,440
Speaker 2: can park wherever you want on the Interstate. On the

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01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 2: exit ramp, there's so many cars parked it blows my mind.

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01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:00,640
Speaker 1: That's so dangerous. So what's happening there?

1334
01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:01,760
Speaker 5: Just running out of gas?

1335
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:03,760
Speaker 1: Like I don't think, I don't know.

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01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 2: I mean, there are breakdowns, but there are a lot

1337
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:09,800
Speaker 2: of people you see sitting in their car. I'm convinceder

1338
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:12,200
Speaker 2: just like, oh I gotta take this call.

1339
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 5: Hey, safety first, I.

1340
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:17,080
Speaker 1: Guess, Yes, what is the deal with traffic?

1341
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:20,080
Speaker 3: People don't have insurance either? Just leave them there.

1342
01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:22,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a lot of a band.

1343
01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:24,120
Speaker 1: There's so on the side.

1344
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 3: Sorry to go back to that.

1345
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:28,200
Speaker 4: Okay, is it true if you get in an abandoned

1346
01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:29,760
Speaker 4: car you can just take it on the highway?

1347
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:34,040
Speaker 3: You should legal keeps us others safe. The Greater Good.

1348
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:39,760
Speaker 1: Hit me with another unexpected Atlanta themed metaphor. This was tough.

1349
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Speaker 2: I believe this is more of an idiom than a metaphor.

1350
01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:49,200
Speaker 2: But it would go something like this, talking to blank. Okay,

1351
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:53,640
Speaker 2: so talking to I don't know, Skip Bayless Raquel from

1352
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:57,720
Speaker 2: vander Pump trolls on the internet. Talking to Blank is

1353
01:02:57,760 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 2: as pointless as washing your car during atl pollen season.

1354
01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, and I just did it. Why, I

1355
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:07,520
Speaker 1: don't know. I thought the pollen was done. It's not.

1356
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:12,640
Speaker 1: I washed my car two days later it's covered. Stupid.

1357
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 1: You gotta way to know, man, you gotta way or

1358
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 1: wait for the rain if you got your car outside.

1359
01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: But that's an idiot. Yeah, it's a metaphor. That counts.

1360
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:22,760
Speaker 1: That counts. Okay, what about you?

1361
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 3: Chest Uh? Yeah that this one is also it's weather related.

1362
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:31,760
Speaker 3: We're right right in the heart of fake summer right now.

1363
01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:35,920
Speaker 3: Like it got super warm, it got cooler again. It

1364
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 3: happens a lot. Thirty degree swings day to day, moment

1365
01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 3: to moment. So uh, a warm spring no, no, no,

1366
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,680
Speaker 3: A warm summer is a fool's errand, or like a

1367
01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:49,840
Speaker 3: warm summer day is a fools are I don't know.

1368
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't have a good one either, But

1369
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 3: there's there's definitely you know, it's it's fake spring, it's

1370
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:58,560
Speaker 3: fake summer. It's fakes summer. It's real spring currently here

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01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 3: in the South. But you know what I'm saying, it's

1372
01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:03,880
Speaker 3: more of an idiom.

1373
01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 1: Actually it was nonsensical. That's an idio.

1374
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:14,320
Speaker 4: Summer's day is a fools there day.

1375
01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:19,440
Speaker 1: The summer's day in the spring is a fools there

1376
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:22,400
Speaker 1: All right, that's good. JD. You got a metaphor or

1377
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:23,280
Speaker 1: an idiom.

1378
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:26,080
Speaker 5: I'm not sure what it is and when it when

1379
01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:29,360
Speaker 5: you're an app on your phone is not working properly.

1380
01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:33,520
Speaker 5: This thing is buggier than an Atlanta's summer.

1381
01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 1: But yeah, something I like it.

1382
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:38,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's thuggier. I'm pretty sure that's a met Yeah, okay,

1383
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:39,960
Speaker 3: that's my metaphor.

1384
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:41,080
Speaker 1: That's a clear comparison.

1385
01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:45,240
Speaker 5: It gets pretty buggy down here in the cell. Mosquitoes,

1386
01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:46,400
Speaker 5: no sums.

1387
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:49,760
Speaker 1: They call them noms great one, great.

1388
01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 5: One, actually mosquitoes or they have gnats. I don't even know.

1389
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 5: I do vicious little beasts.

1390
01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 1: I'll say that.

1391
01:04:56,640 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 4: My favorite rebranding is that down here they call cockroaches

1392
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:01,080
Speaker 4: palmetto bugs.

1393
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 2: It sounds like the fancy swanky a vacation budg.

1394
01:05:06,280 --> 01:05:08,280
Speaker 1: Nope, it's a cockroach. Yeah.

1395
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 4: Legendary talk show host Jerry Springer passed away this week,

1396
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 4: which led to NBA Twitter circulating the decades old clip

1397
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:17,720
Speaker 4: of Benny the Bulls appearance on the show. Benny was

1398
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 4: on a Secrets to Tell episode where he was crushed

1399
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:22,960
Speaker 4: to find out his girlfriend was hooking up with the.

1400
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:26,440
Speaker 1: Giant inflatable bowl behind his horns. Tragic stuff.

1401
01:05:27,360 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 4: Guys, what's a scandal you've been involved in that would

1402
01:05:30,040 --> 01:05:33,520
Speaker 4: get the crowd chantingy?

1403
01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:38,560
Speaker 2: I once got in trouble for wearing a fedora with

1404
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:43,320
Speaker 2: Safari flaps in the back. And it happened in a meeting. Okay,

1405
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:46,000
Speaker 2: so my boss, his name was mister Andrews. He told

1406
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:47,720
Speaker 2: me to take it off, said it was distracting.

1407
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:49,439
Speaker 1: He said if anyone.

1408
01:05:49,120 --> 01:05:52,720
Speaker 2: Disagreed, he'd let me keep the hat on. But nobody

1409
01:05:52,720 --> 01:05:57,240
Speaker 2: said shit, dude, nobody said shit. And while I regret

1410
01:05:57,320 --> 01:05:59,120
Speaker 2: it to this day, I took the hat off. I

1411
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 2: was like a little upset, had my head in my

1412
01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 2: hands and I muttered under my breath, you can't fucking

1413
01:06:05,160 --> 01:06:05,440
Speaker 2: do that.

1414
01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 1: And he heard me. Mister Andrews was like, what's that?

1415
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 1: And I said nothing. Just sat there.

1416
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:14,320
Speaker 2: But then I worked up the courage, and about a

1417
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:17,120
Speaker 2: minute or so later, I told him the hat was

1418
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:20,360
Speaker 2: not a distraction, and the guy at the store said,

1419
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:22,440
Speaker 2: I'm the only guy he's ever seen.

1420
01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:22,880
Speaker 1: Pull it off.

1421
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:26,080
Speaker 2: So my boss said, well, how much does it cost?

1422
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:28,000
Speaker 2: I told him it was illegal to ask me that,

1423
01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:31,360
Speaker 2: so I said, screwt. I'm putting the hat back on.

1424
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:34,360
Speaker 2: I don't care what happens to me. He told me

1425
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:36,000
Speaker 2: to take it off. I said, no, I'm not taking

1426
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:36,880
Speaker 2: the fucking hat off.

1427
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:37,960
Speaker 1: Said this to my boss.

1428
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 2: That's when I stood up and I said, I've never

1429
01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:43,720
Speaker 2: fought for anything in my entire life.

1430
01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:45,840
Speaker 1: I'm fighting for this hat.

1431
01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:49,320
Speaker 2: And when I slammed my hand down on the table

1432
01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:52,160
Speaker 2: to like really make my point, I hit my water

1433
01:06:52,200 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 2: bottle and it spilled all over my laptop.

1434
01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:57,360
Speaker 1: So to try and make things better, I panicked a

1435
01:06:57,400 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 1: little bit.

1436
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:00,760
Speaker 2: I tried to roll my hat down my arm like

1437
01:07:00,800 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 2: Fred Astare, but the back of my hat, the Safari flaps,

1438
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 2: they got caught in Rick's wheelchair and it took me

1439
01:07:08,920 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 2: forever to get the flap out of the wheelchair.

1440
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:12,160
Speaker 1: And I was like turn and beat red, and my

1441
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:13,280
Speaker 1: heart was racing.

1442
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:16,000
Speaker 2: So to make matters worse, one of the flaps got

1443
01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:17,920
Speaker 2: like grease wheel on it, and I said, what the

1444
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:19,080
Speaker 2: fuck is all this stuff?

1445
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:19,640
Speaker 1: To Rick?

1446
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:22,640
Speaker 2: You have to grease these wheels? And Rick said, yeah,

1447
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:27,080
Speaker 2: you gotta keep the wheels lubricated. And I said, yeah, well, I'm.

1448
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:29,320
Speaker 1: Not supposed to get grease on this hat. It's my

1449
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 1: favorite hat.

1450
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:32,240
Speaker 2: So I got up and I went to walk towards

1451
01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:34,120
Speaker 2: the door, and Brenda was sort of in my way.

1452
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:36,640
Speaker 2: She was just sitting there, so I said move And

1453
01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:38,800
Speaker 2: right when I said it, I realized I had gone

1454
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 2: too far.

1455
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:42,360
Speaker 1: So I said, in a joky voice, who said that?

1456
01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:47,440
Speaker 2: And then I got fired? And that's then when I

1457
01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:53,400
Speaker 2: went the next day on Jerry Springer and mister Andrews,

1458
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 2: I confronted him on stage while I was wearing my

1459
01:07:56,320 --> 01:07:59,360
Speaker 2: Fedora with the Safari flaps in the back, and they

1460
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:02,880
Speaker 2: wheeled Rick out and Brenda was there and ship went down.

1461
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:06,760
Speaker 5: I thought it was Brenda's laptop, you spilled the water.

1462
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:25,080
Speaker 1: It was yours. Yeah, it's different. That's what you're going there.

1463
01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:27,160
Speaker 1: You got a scandal, buddy.

1464
01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:31,600
Speaker 3: No, I was gonna. I was gonna. I thought I

1465
01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 3: had another skit to go. I don't uh, scandal, Well,

1466
01:08:35,760 --> 01:08:38,840
Speaker 3: I could literally go on Jerry R. I p with

1467
01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:41,679
Speaker 3: the event that I had. It was a mere fifteen

1468
01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:45,800
Speaker 3: months ago. Daniel got into a car accident and she

1469
01:08:45,880 --> 01:08:48,880
Speaker 3: was okay, but the car was not went to a

1470
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:51,160
Speaker 3: body shop and a friend at the body shop said

1471
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:53,639
Speaker 3: it would be a couple of weeks. So we went

1472
01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:57,519
Speaker 3: in there three weeks later, where's our vehicle? Because it

1473
01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:02,080
Speaker 3: was nowhere in sight. Oh, it's being worked on at

1474
01:09:02,120 --> 01:09:04,800
Speaker 3: our other body shop. Didn't like that right right from

1475
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 3: the can't go it's yeah, we'll not on site. We

1476
01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:09,599
Speaker 3: could we could do more at our other body shop.

1477
01:09:09,640 --> 01:09:12,160
Speaker 3: Apparently they didn't have the tools at this body shop

1478
01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:14,640
Speaker 3: that I went to. This this body shop that I

1479
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:17,439
Speaker 3: trusted my car with anyway, So we went back a

1480
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:20,040
Speaker 3: week later. Okay, it's been a month, you said, you know,

1481
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:25,120
Speaker 3: two weeks, where's this vehicle? And I pulled out my

1482
01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:30,760
Speaker 3: foodora I had rolled down my arm anyway, a lot

1483
01:09:30,760 --> 01:09:36,560
Speaker 3: of grease, dirty body shop. Anyway, we had it was

1484
01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:39,040
Speaker 3: another five weeks. Took nine weeks to get this car back.

1485
01:09:39,160 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 3: Didn't see it. Didn't trust him that they that we'd

1486
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:43,880
Speaker 3: ever get the vehicle back. After a while, after going

1487
01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:47,160
Speaker 3: back and forth. We had to had to have some

1488
01:09:47,160 --> 01:09:50,840
Speaker 3: some strong discussions, and it was tough. It was a

1489
01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:54,519
Speaker 3: very tough nine weeks. We got a car back. It

1490
01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:56,600
Speaker 3: was fine, but it would have been nice to have

1491
01:09:56,680 --> 01:09:59,320
Speaker 3: it back. It just just seemed like an easy job.

1492
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:04,519
Speaker 3: I always underestimate how much work mechanics were putting into

1493
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:08,040
Speaker 3: a bodyboard. But whatever, don't lie to me, just don't

1494
01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:12,400
Speaker 3: lie to me. Did I write a bad review after Nah,

1495
01:10:12,439 --> 01:10:15,280
Speaker 3: I'm not that type of person. But every person I told,

1496
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:20,880
Speaker 3: I told, do not go to send me even way

1497
01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:21,920
Speaker 3: more powerful.

1498
01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:24,919
Speaker 1: Quite powerful. I can see that being a Jerry Springer episode,

1499
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:28,959
Speaker 1: Like did he do like consumer problems? Probably? Probably, Yeah,

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01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:29,679
Speaker 1: that's a good question.

1501
01:10:29,760 --> 01:10:32,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe at the start, and then they went really

1502
01:10:32,080 --> 01:10:33,800
Speaker 2: nuts and they got the eyeballs.

1503
01:10:34,560 --> 01:10:37,800
Speaker 4: We got the eyeballs for a thirteen year old who's

1504
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:38,920
Speaker 4: dating round.

1505
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:42,200
Speaker 3: And on the day I picked up this vehicle, the

1506
01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:45,960
Speaker 3: guy who I usually talk to, the manager, was working

1507
01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:52,240
Speaker 3: on another car, but didn't come to say go bye forever.

1508
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 3: Then didn't come and dress me whatsoever. He did give

1509
01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:57,240
Speaker 3: some sort of through and out. I put on an

1510
01:10:57,280 --> 01:10:58,880
Speaker 3: oil change in there, but he didn't say that he

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01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:02,040
Speaker 3: did that. Third part already just come.

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Speaker 1: Say hello, Howard. Yea, he was afraid of you. You

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01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:07,440
Speaker 1: didn't like the confrontation.

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01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:11,760
Speaker 3: I didn't either. I just wanted my car. Consumer problem.

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01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:14,519
Speaker 3: That's a good part. Somebody should just focus on that.

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01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:17,599
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, People's Court. I guess that's the thing.

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01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:21,280
Speaker 2: Steve Harvey's got his own People's Court now he's the judge.

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01:11:21,439 --> 01:11:24,400
Speaker 2: What well, I saw an ad for it. I'm like, yep,

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01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:25,240
Speaker 2: I'll be watching that.

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Speaker 5: I will.

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Speaker 3: It's perfect.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Scandal D I do not have one personally, but uh,

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01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:39,679
Speaker 5: this is true. Jackson, my youngest son, it's his scandal

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01:11:40,360 --> 01:11:45,719
Speaker 5: that he's embroiled in or was his ex girlfriend got

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01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:51,200
Speaker 5: suspended from school because she threatened to stab his new girlfriend.

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01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:52,920
Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.

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01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:56,680
Speaker 3: That's scandal Jery.

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01:11:56,880 --> 01:12:03,720
Speaker 2: Jerry, Jerry Jerry scandal plow and they're both waiting at

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Speaker 2: backstage right now.

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01:12:09,080 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 1: All right, that's wrapping.

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01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:13,680
Speaker 2: Fire are definitely not wrapping this week, but hopefully it

1533
01:12:13,720 --> 01:12:16,559
Speaker 2: helped make a classic you tell us breaking down the

1534
01:12:16,680 --> 01:12:19,280
Speaker 2: three second round series that we know and having a

1535
01:12:19,280 --> 01:12:21,280
Speaker 2: little fun there at day at the end, leave your

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Speaker 2: boys a five star rating and review. If you're watching

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Speaker 2: to No Dunks.

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Speaker 1: Go check out No Buffs.

1541
01:12:31,520 --> 01:12:35,519
Speaker 2: Obviously, we'll be back on Monday to break down what

1542
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:38,679
Speaker 2: happens tonight. We got two games on tonight, King's Warriors

1543
01:12:38,720 --> 01:12:42,719
Speaker 2: Game six Grizzlies Lakers Game six, both of them ending.

1544
01:12:42,880 --> 01:12:45,840
Speaker 2: Or are we finally getting a Zaza clip and we're

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01:12:45,840 --> 01:12:46,559
Speaker 2: going to game seven?

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01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 1: Baby? What's your guts? Say? Just real quickly here as

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01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:49,000
Speaker 1: we wrap up.

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01:12:49,080 --> 01:12:53,160
Speaker 3: I'm terrible at predicting these, but I think the Warriors

1549
01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:55,840
Speaker 3: take care biz, grizz keep it going.

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01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, I would be the same though.

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01:12:59,080 --> 01:13:00,720
Speaker 4: I think they can both for game seventh, to be

1552
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:03,320
Speaker 4: quite honest, like Sacramento, some Bonus has a better game.

1553
01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:05,720
Speaker 4: If they actually shoot some pretty decent threes, they can

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01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:08,040
Speaker 4: make it happen. It can be interesting to see what

1555
01:13:08,080 --> 01:13:10,720
Speaker 4: Lebron has in the tank for this one after a

1556
01:13:10,760 --> 01:13:15,280
Speaker 4: not that great game five, kind of a must win game.

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01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:16,640
Speaker 4: I feel like for LA they don't want to go

1558
01:13:16,640 --> 01:13:19,000
Speaker 4: back to Memphis, that's for sure. So think Memphis force

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01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:21,200
Speaker 4: is one. I think Golden State doesn't force one.

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01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:23,160
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, then I.

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01:13:23,160 --> 01:13:23,760
Speaker 1: Wrap it up.

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01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:26,760
Speaker 2: Well, we'll be talking about it all come Monday, so

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01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:29,960
Speaker 2: join us then at ten am Eastern live here from

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01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:32,599
Speaker 2: the Classic Factory. Everybody, have a great weekend, safe weekend,

1565
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 2: enjoy the basketball till then.

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Speaker 1: Clipper Bros. You heard it here first, have a great time.

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Speaker 1: Turn up. Love you guys. Awesome, Thanks for joining us.

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01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:47,760
Speaker 3: I remember tune into JD's No Potatoes podcast just hate it.

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01:13:47,840 --> 01:13:51,360
Speaker 1: Just eats a potato and its terrible twenty minute. There's

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Speaker 1: something there. Put it in the slest. Brace the weekend, people,