Speaker 1: Well, well, well, the Calves are still undefeated, and most
Speaker 1: of the Eastern Conference is still under five hundred very odd,
Speaker 1: and the Western.
Speaker 2: Conference remains the nightly gauntment we all expected it to be.
Speaker 3: We'll get into stories from around the league, including the
Speaker 3: latest with the Lakers with Gluts points baraj to Balu
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Speaker 2: I think it must follow on Twitter for anybody who
Speaker 2: loves basketball, especially if you're a Laker fan.
Speaker 3: I know that the case for myself than.
Speaker 4: Most importantly recently watched Scarface for the first time. Yes, yes,
Speaker 4: and you don't worry the NBA is it? We know
Speaker 4: it's still a basketball podcast. Where was a basketball scene. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 4: what's what's.
Speaker 3: Your take on basketball moves that you see actors doing movies? Like,
Speaker 3: is it hard to watch? To go the same basketball?
Speaker 6: Is this?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: What do you when you watch it? I know, as
Speaker 3: someone who loves the game so much, Right, how does
Speaker 3: that any?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: No, it definitely doesn't look realistic at all. Their scarface,
Speaker 6: there wasn't much. I mean, I think it was just
Speaker 6: barely any basketball show, like the Ball, right yeah.
Speaker 3: And you're like, I get into it that it's basketball.
Speaker 4: It's a group of fifty prisoners in this like makeshift
Speaker 4: prison that they built under highway is in Miami, and
Speaker 4: every it's just every man for the So this was
Speaker 4: one of the most memorable experiences I had because I
Speaker 4: love movies and I love basketball, and this was one
Speaker 4: of the first moments where I was like, oh, like
Speaker 4: not only like al Pacino in that scene. It's not
Speaker 4: like he doesn't he just looks like he hasn't played
Speaker 4: competitive basketball. It's like he has not heard of competitive basketball,
Speaker 4: right right right, Like he catches the ball and like
Speaker 4: has it over his head and then just like throws
Speaker 4: it towards the basket. And also it seems like Oliver
Speaker 4: Stone and this might be hard to believe, might not
Speaker 4: have heard of competitive basketball because everyone it's like a
Speaker 4: game of twenty one, but like with fifty people and
Speaker 4: everybody's just running around trying to grab the ball. And
Speaker 4: then I think he goes and catches his first body.
Speaker 6: But my favorite thing about that movie, I guess watching
Speaker 6: it as a person who's just not into movies, is that,
Speaker 6: like all the memes and stuff, I finally understood our
Speaker 6: face memes for the laughing phone conversation, right, yeah, so
Speaker 6: I never knew where that had no clue where those
Speaker 6: things came from school to kind of figure that out.
Speaker 3: I'm about to watch The Avengers, so I understand the
Speaker 3: memes way behind them.
Speaker 4: But I'm we are not the same.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we were built different. But yeah, basketball he's
Speaker 2: our favorite sport. We love the way they ribble up
Speaker 2: and down the court.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: As a poet once said that Curtis Bloke.
Speaker 4: The election broke our minds. So this is where we're at.
Speaker 4: Rhyme thing. Wait real quick. The only basketball movies that
Speaker 4: have like really worked for me are the ones that
Speaker 4: cast like Shaq or Ray Allen Chicken He Got Game,
Speaker 4: especially that like Barnyard Game that yeah, yeah, that was fun. Yeah,
Speaker 4: nothing else has really Like I guess white Men can't
Speaker 4: jump the original food when I was a kid because
Speaker 4: I was like, wow, he's doing behind the back in
Speaker 4: between the leg. Then you go back and watch it
Speaker 4: and it's it's just right. Yeah, it's extreme slow motion.
Speaker 4: But has there has there ever been one that has
Speaker 4: fooled you, has felt okay to you?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I guess I haven't rewatched it as an adult.
Speaker 6: But Coach, like I enjoyed Coach Carter when I watched it. Yeah,
Speaker 6: maybe at the time it was just I enjoyed it.
Speaker 6: But I see people's reviews on it now and they
Speaker 6: think it's a terrible movie. But I have fond memories
Speaker 6: of that one. Like, I thought it was a pretty
Speaker 6: good basketball movie. I thought it tried to be as
Speaker 6: realistic as it could be, and it you know, had
Speaker 6: the high school phenom part of it and you know,
Speaker 6: kids trying to make the team, uh stuff like that.
Speaker 6: So I thought it was a solid basketball movie. But yeah,
Speaker 6: there's not too many. He Got Game is probably my
Speaker 6: favorite one that The Right Island, Jesus shuttles Worth one, but.
Speaker 4: Also in Teen Wolf catball like that the wolf wolf actually, Like,
Speaker 4: I don't know who they put in that first suit.
Speaker 4: It definitely wasn't Michael Javis.
Speaker 3: Bludd Web.
Speaker 4: Like, I mean, yeah, it could easily could have been rash.
Speaker 3: But let's let's play a quick game around the league,
Speaker 3: because there's a lot of a lot of hot starts,
Speaker 3: hot hot hearts, and just tell us is this counterfeit
Speaker 3: or not? You know what I mean, Like, what are
Speaker 3: we is this?
Speaker 2: Is this the real thing we're looking at or are
Speaker 2: we going to see a bit of a regression? To
Speaker 2: start at the top of the list, the calves as
Speaker 2: of this recording are twelve to zero, the number one offense,
Speaker 2: number eight defense, second in point differential. I watched their
Speaker 2: bench come on to the floor and absolutely destroy and
Speaker 2: I was like, wyo, what is this?
Speaker 4: I would say, like heading into the season, by the way,
Speaker 4: with all three of these teams, if you gave me
Speaker 4: the option of this start that they've got or playing,
Speaker 4: I would have gone playing over this start like that
Speaker 4: seems like the more likely option than what we're getting
Speaker 4: from any of the three, like playing to start, So
Speaker 4: I guess playing would be like five hundred at this point,
Speaker 4: right right, but yeah, where.
Speaker 3: Are you at?
Speaker 6: So with the Cavs, I've been so I don't really
Speaker 6: push agendas, but I felt like Donovan Mitchell has been
Speaker 6: underrated for a very long time. Like I think people
Speaker 6: forget what he was doing with those Utah teams. He
Speaker 6: was carrying an offense that had very few other ball handlers,
Speaker 6: and I think if you put Donovan Mitchell around solid talent,
Speaker 6: he's gonna get you a lot of wins. I don't
Speaker 6: think they're gonna go eighty two and zero, so like
Speaker 6: it's a little counterfeit. Obviously, they're not about to just
Speaker 6: run off phage. Yeah about twin seventy or break the
Speaker 6: seventy you know three win record that the Warriors got
Speaker 6: a few years ago. But I think this is real.
Speaker 6: They were legit defense. I've watched, you know, pretty much
Speaker 6: every team so far, and they're the most serious basketball
Speaker 6: team I've seen, super focused, very attention to detail. Their
Speaker 6: defense is legit. They start two bigs around. If you're
Speaker 6: gonna start two small guards, you have to have a
Speaker 6: lot of size to compensate for that, and they do that.
Speaker 6: Mobley and Allen are awesome, especially in the regular season.
Speaker 6: I'm not a big Jared Allen guy. In the playoffs,
Speaker 6: he has some quotes that concerned me. But in the
Speaker 6: regular season they look awesome. I think they're going to
Speaker 6: continue to just win at a rate. And I think
Speaker 6: they're still without Max Struce if I have that right.
Speaker 6: So there's they're going to get more shooting back and
Speaker 6: that's a team that's really tough to guard, you know,
Speaker 6: in the regular season with Mitchell and Garland both looking
Speaker 6: as they.
Speaker 3: Are not counterfeit in the sense that they won't go
Speaker 3: they're not going to win the next seventy games.
Speaker 4: Right right, more so, but this this is legit, Okay,
Speaker 4: unfortunately because in the world that we exist in where
Speaker 4: Steven A. Smith does really well, we need you to
Speaker 4: actually explain why they're garbage because they're not going to
Speaker 4: go two enough. Yeah right, yeah, yeah, this is this fake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know that.
Speaker 4: I don't know the quotes that concern that concern you
Speaker 4: that you speak of, what are those about?
Speaker 6: Yeah, So Jared Allen had a quote where he said,
Speaker 6: you know, the lights were a little too bright for me,
Speaker 6: you know, and this is like a veteran in year
Speaker 6: whatever he is, and this is a recent playoff run
Speaker 6: that's just that's type of stuff concerns me a little bit.
Speaker 4: Is there any chance he was being literal and the
Speaker 4: lights were just turned up.
Speaker 6: Too prol the lights right, And I think he was
Speaker 6: talking about in U.
Speaker 3: Was the reason in Dallas. The Dallas Cowboys Stadium right
Speaker 3: there literally can't see anything.
Speaker 4: So first of all, starting two bigs who can't really
Speaker 4: shoot threes seems like heading into the season, I feel
Speaker 4: like then some people might have said, that's like not
Speaker 4: the way to win the modern NBA. But you know,
Speaker 4: when you look at how well Mitchell and Garland are shooting.
Speaker 4: Superducer Jabari pointed out they're shooting for on a combined
Speaker 4: fifteen attempts a night, so like that, that'll that'll help.
Speaker 4: If everybody's shooting that well, then you can, I guess,
Speaker 4: have some guys who can bang around in the middle
Speaker 4: and then so just kind of the opposite of the
Speaker 4: point you made about them being small guards. But if
Speaker 4: you if you got two bigs in the middle and
Speaker 4: the small guards are shooting that well, then it all
Speaker 4: works out right.
Speaker 6: And they have someone that's just an elite shot creator
Speaker 6: at all times pretty much on the floor, and that
Speaker 6: just really raises your offensive floor to where it's tough
Speaker 6: to guard them, and most teams don't have two, you know,
Speaker 6: wings they can throw on both Garland and Mitchell, so
Speaker 6: it's kind of helped Garland as well. And they just
Speaker 6: create good shots. They get a lot of corner threes.
Speaker 6: Kenny Atkinson is a good coach, who knew, but like
Speaker 6: he's he's really starting to He's got them playing super
Speaker 6: hard and don't like, I don't see I don't think
Speaker 6: they're better than Boston, but like how the Knicks look
Speaker 6: right now? I have no idea what's going on with Philly.
Speaker 6: They look like the second best team in the East currently.
Speaker 4: Can you edit that so it sounds like he said,
Speaker 4: Philly looks like the second best team in the East.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Garland's shooting forty six from three, Mitchell forty one
Speaker 4: percent on you know, he takes some tough shots. Yeah,
Speaker 4: all right, So Atkinson getting a lot of love. Going
Speaker 4: back to our movie question, if you had to put
Speaker 4: Kenny Atkinson in a movie playing any profession, I feel
Speaker 4: like the job wouldn't be basketball coach. He doesn't he
Speaker 4: looks like what what what profession does he look like?
Speaker 4: Is this like low level stock trader.
Speaker 3: Like he looks like the quirky boss in a rom com.
Speaker 4: Okay, I can see that, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Who like who like he kind of because that slick
Speaker 2: back hair kind of gives you like, I'm the boss
Speaker 2: of this vibes.
Speaker 3: But he also looks like, you know, he's got a
Speaker 3: he's kind of a wild card. He's there for some
Speaker 3: comedic really, like he could move move.
Speaker 4: Some used cars. Also, I'm not saying give him full
Speaker 4: used car, but like, I feel like he could move
Speaker 4: some use He's in sales. He's in sales for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's in sales. And he
Speaker 4: is up against it.
Speaker 3: Yeah you know what I mean. Yeah, got hit his
Speaker 3: quota every exactly. He's like, I'm upside down, man. I
Speaker 3: think we got to get out of this thing. The
Speaker 3: Suns are next one counterfeit or not eight and two,
Speaker 3: number eleven, offense, number fourteen ranked defense twelve in point
Speaker 3: differential sustainable. No, is this is this the real thing?
Speaker 6: Not? I don't think so. I think eight and two
Speaker 6: I think has passed their projection. I was higher on
Speaker 6: them than like consensus, but you know, I just I
Speaker 6: don't like the defensive kind of load on Kevin Durant.
Speaker 6: He has a lot of responsibility on that, and I
Speaker 6: just don't think that's sustainable. Bill still doesn't look like
Speaker 6: the player that they traded for and still has a
Speaker 6: no trade clause somehow, So I think they'll come back
Speaker 6: down to earth. They have a lot of close games
Speaker 6: as well. I think every one of their wins that
Speaker 6: they were in clutch time too against US too.
Speaker 3: By the way, but we.
Speaker 4: Sing like the Los Angeles like, Okay, people might think
Speaker 4: you played I think you played them on Friday.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, right right, Yeah, I was in the game too.
Speaker 6: But yeah, so they've kind of split games against US.
Speaker 6: They've had close games all throughout. I don't really like
Speaker 6: the highest Booker Beals starting unit. I think that's too small,
Speaker 6: and I think eventually the league will kind of figure
Speaker 6: them out as well. They've they've started well. I think
Speaker 6: it's counterfit though to their start.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, just like put put it in perspective.
Speaker 4: The plus minus differential so calves second and plus uh
Speaker 4: in point differential at plus twelve against their opponents. The
Speaker 4: team we're about to talk about plus eleven point nine
Speaker 4: against their opponents third uh and the Suns are plus
Speaker 4: two point one. So you know that's that's down there
Speaker 4: in the Yeah, a couple shots go the other way,
Speaker 4: and this could this could be a completely different thing, right,
Speaker 4: But I mean not to take anything away from like
Speaker 4: what Katie is doing, you know, no, first of all,
Speaker 4: what he did for this country this summer, yes, exactly,
Speaker 4: and now delivered goal keeping it up. Speaking of delivering
Speaker 4: state of Arizona, tell them for the Valley brother.
Speaker 2: So the Warriors also eight and two, as Jack said,
Speaker 2: eleven point nine on their point differential number four Office
Speaker 2: number four defense.
Speaker 3: I I mean, I was like, yeah, at the beginning,
Speaker 3: I was like, buddy, healed, look at it. Look at them,
Speaker 3: and I know, Jack, You're like just wait, you'll.
Speaker 4: See I'm still saying that. I mean, it's entirely.
Speaker 3: It was earned. Was that reaction was earned? Absolutely it was.
Speaker 4: So this is the like a lot of people have
Speaker 4: the hold down the corner of just being like very
Speaker 4: strong in their opinion, and like when they get something right,
Speaker 4: they like really point to that I am wrong almost
Speaker 4: all the time, and I was really wrong about the
Speaker 4: Warriors and the Calves, uh and the Suns. But the
Speaker 4: Warriors in particular the buddy healed thing. We've seen a
Speaker 4: lot of teams be like, ah, just just wait till
Speaker 4: we get healed heild and then it doesn't work out?
Speaker 4: Is this colored by you know my recent history is
Speaker 4: a seventy six Ers fan. I don't know nobody can
Speaker 4: say the.
Speaker 3: White tears away, it's all right, it's all right.
Speaker 4: Yes, crying.
Speaker 3: I was just on hot ones. You were just on
Speaker 3: hot ones. That's why I'm crying. Uh, But yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean we've seen a fantastic start. This is like one
Speaker 3: of those things again Jack's been saying, sometimes they just decide,
Speaker 3: you know what, we're gonna be really good this season,
Speaker 3: good warrior season. Yeah, what do we think? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: should we do a good one this year?
Speaker 4: Guys, Yeah, let's do it over Kurr halftime speech.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Again for them, Like, I don't think it's counterfeit.
Speaker 6: I also don't think they're about to win like fifty
Speaker 6: five to fifty seven games. But I think what their
Speaker 6: identity is around is real. They're a legit good defensive team.
Speaker 6: Draymond is back to like crying Draymond defender, and you
Speaker 6: know he hasn't been kicked out of games yet so
Speaker 6: like he's still being super effective with them. Steph Curry
Speaker 6: still looks like Steph. They're having him kind of more
Speaker 6: on the ball, and I think, Buddy, sorry about your
Speaker 6: trauma with Buddy Heald and Philly, you know.
Speaker 4: And I I do not have anything personal against him,
Speaker 4: That's the thing, Like, i never hold a grudge against
Speaker 4: a player. I'm happy to see the shots going in
Speaker 4: for him. I've left him since college. Like that season
Speaker 4: he had at Oklahoma was so fun, right, YEA thrilled
Speaker 4: to see the shots going in.
Speaker 6: Right, I'm sure you are, But I think, Buddy.
Speaker 4: Genuine there. Yeah, I just get mad at the team,
Speaker 4: the organization, yeah, right right, that's my sickness.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but he looks born to play in this system,
Speaker 6: Like there's a level of freedom and empowering that the
Speaker 6: Warriors do for shooters like that he's been Look he
Speaker 6: looks like Klay Thompson. Obviously he's not Clay, he's not
Speaker 6: prime play, but in terms of the shot, he's getting
Speaker 6: the volume that he's been in transition. Yeah, and again
Speaker 6: he's being told like you catch it, you fire, And
Speaker 6: the Warriors place system where Steph Curry's kind of gravity
Speaker 6: allows these players to get a lot of looks that
Speaker 6: they don't get in other places. And I think Steve
Speaker 6: Kurr is an underrated coach that he gets a lot
Speaker 6: of flack online for like decisions and the minutes, the
Speaker 6: weird you know minutes that he has Steph Curry on,
Speaker 6: which I think is more collaborative, but beween them then
Speaker 6: gets let out. But Buddy heel looks born to me
Speaker 6: to plan that system. He looks, yeah, he looks awesome.
Speaker 6: Stuff is weird, but it's working out right now.
Speaker 3: I saw do you see that clip of Draymond talking
Speaker 3: about how like they had to just kind of figure
Speaker 3: out how to adapt to like Buddy sort of his instincts,
Speaker 3: Like defensively, he's like, look, man, he's a ball chaser,
Speaker 3: and we don't really that's not the best thing, but
Speaker 3: we try and figure out how do we make that
Speaker 3: work for us? And they are and I'm like, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it does feel like a really good fit to just
Speaker 3: be like, Okay, what are things that people might view
Speaker 3: as like a negative or something that can be improved upon,
Speaker 3: and how can we integrate that in a way that
Speaker 3: isn't making you wholesale feel like yeah, throw it all out. Kirby.
Speaker 4: Being a bad coach is like one of those things
Speaker 4: that I feel like only really exists on the internet.
Speaker 4: Like it's just like a lot of like the diehard
Speaker 4: fans who get on Twitter and start complaining every time
Speaker 4: they don't win a championship. There's just so much variance
Speaker 4: on the team and their performance. I don't think it's
Speaker 4: because Steve Kerr is like, I'm really not going to
Speaker 4: bring it this year, right, you know the fact that
Speaker 4: there are times this time, there are times when they're
Speaker 4: able to put it together with a team that is
Speaker 4: not the typical team that wins championships, I don't know,
Speaker 4: is pretty pretty impressive.
Speaker 6: Well, I think what it was was Steve Kerr just
Speaker 6: wasn't about to adapt, right, Like He's like, this is
Speaker 6: my system and this is what we run, and even
Speaker 6: if five players that can't run it, this is still
Speaker 6: you know, you know what I'm going to run. And
Speaker 6: James Wiseman obviously hasn't worked out, but I think like
Speaker 6: the Warriors were expecting him to be a part of it,
Speaker 6: and Steve Kerr is like, that guy just can't play
Speaker 6: in my system. And if he is going to play
Speaker 6: he's gonna do the things that my system asked for.
Speaker 6: And I think that's where the criticism came, where he
Speaker 6: was really just not going to adjust you know, his
Speaker 6: system for any player.
Speaker 4: James Wiseman and who was right there. I mean how
Speaker 4: good Wiseman is elsewhere.
Speaker 6: But another player is like Kelly oubre right, who's killing
Speaker 6: it for you guys, but was you know, all on
Speaker 6: Golden State and he's kind of talked about the adjustment
Speaker 6: he's had to make as well. So a player like
Speaker 6: Da Steve, because like Kelly Uber, you are going to
Speaker 6: have to make splip cuts and you know you're gonna
Speaker 6: have to work in our system, and Kelly Uber, yeah,
Speaker 6: that's not what I do, and you.
Speaker 7: Know you will do it somewhere else, probably not how speakers, No,
Speaker 7: but yeah, he'd be like, come on, he's more of
Speaker 7: a come on kind of guy than for real.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's a priory guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, but I think it's like, but it's it's
Speaker 3: done in the most effective way. Yeah, Okay, should we
Speaker 3: take a quick break?
Speaker 4: Should we take a break?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean, speaking of those two teams, I will just
Speaker 4: say uh. Producer Jabari pointed out that calves are off
Speaker 4: to the best start in franchise history. They're still just
Speaker 4: halfway to the start of the twenty fifteen to twenty
Speaker 4: sixteen Warrior season when they started, Uh how you say
Speaker 4: twenty four and oh yeah, I think that is how
Speaker 4: you say it? Oh good, I got it. Sorry, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I let my the fact that I'm actually ESL French
Speaker 4: guy come through for the first time on this podcast.
Speaker 3: Embracing it. Thank you. He's he's kebec law books. All right,
Speaker 3: let's take a quick break and we'll be back. And
Speaker 3: we're back.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And you know, in addition to loving our Sixers and Lakers,
Speaker 3: we also love a bit of Victor Wembin Yama Wemby
Speaker 3: the shot profile came out and people are taking a
Speaker 3: good hard look at.
Speaker 4: That saying came out. Just dropped, just dropped on the sellser.
Speaker 3: Pull charge, just dropped. Hey man, I think that you
Speaker 3: Jack said, I'm seeing he's doing one hundred percent right there.
Speaker 3: That should be.
Speaker 4: He's shooting one hundred percent. I don't know there. There
Speaker 4: is Nintendo Entertainment System game in the late eighties called
Speaker 4: Double Dribble that had a thing, a glitch in the
Speaker 4: game where you could like find this one spot on
Speaker 4: the court and if you just kept shooting it from there,
Speaker 4: like the game just blitched out and you couldn't miss.
Speaker 4: And it seems like Victor wembin Yama has found that
Speaker 4: spot on a real NBA court. He's one on the
Speaker 4: season from the right block, and yet does not appear
Speaker 4: to be shooting that often from there because his overall
Speaker 4: counting stats are down from his rookie year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not a fan of the shot profile, but
Speaker 6: I get it from them. They're just kind of this
Speaker 6: is to me another year where Wemby is just here, like,
Speaker 6: let's see what you are, and you know they're gonna
Speaker 6: try to, I think, get another top pick with that.
Speaker 6: They're still surrounding him with, you know, a lot less
Speaker 6: talent other than Chris Paul. I think he's like thirty
Speaker 6: eight now. Yeah, so I get it. While he's why
Speaker 6: he's shooting like from thirty five feet, It's like, why
Speaker 6: would I go and drive in when I can, you know,
Speaker 6: just shoot right here and not take any physical contact.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it does feel like him more than any other player.
Speaker 4: You feel like you're watching somebody just like working against
Speaker 4: the flow of the river, just trying to get towards
Speaker 4: the basket, like people are just making it so hard
Speaker 4: for him to get close, And yeah, there's got to
Speaker 4: be some level of like it's just too hard to
Speaker 4: get down there sometimes, or they need to like run
Speaker 4: more creative action for him. But yet, like you said,
Speaker 4: it doesn't seem to be necessarily a priority at this point.
Speaker 4: His blocks are actually up this year from three point
Speaker 4: six last year to three point nine. The other thing
Speaker 4: that's kind of wild, and it again could be small
Speaker 4: sample size, but they always say, like one of the
Speaker 4: first things to look at for shooting is like how
Speaker 4: good of a free throw shooter is the person he's
Speaker 4: shooting ninety two percent from free throw wow this year.
Speaker 3: That's that's good, right.
Speaker 4: That's like yeah again, like and he's not shooting as
Speaker 4: many free throws this year, which is wild.
Speaker 5: But he.
Speaker 6: Likes wiking his arm out and putting it in at
Speaker 6: the free throw line, like.
Speaker 3: That's yeah, yeah, right, right right, yeah. It's like have
Speaker 3: you ever put anything into a garbage can as you
Speaker 3: stood over it?
Speaker 6: That's kind of like, how the that's what he's doing?
Speaker 3: Nice and easy? Nice?
Speaker 2: That uh, that one clip of some bonus just giving
Speaker 2: him that fake and then the way he recovered with
Speaker 2: that second. It's because you can see his footwork the
Speaker 2: second he's like up a bit, you can you can
Speaker 2: tell he's sorting his feet out immediately to.
Speaker 3: Just get right back up and make that block. And
Speaker 3: I was like, man, see, this is the other stuff
Speaker 3: that aside from like whatever his shot selection is, Like,
Speaker 3: these are the other skills that are developing in real
Speaker 3: time too that are going to just I again, the health.
Speaker 3: I hope please keep that slender body in shape, because
Speaker 3: as we saw with Chat Holmgren.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was one of the last things I saw
Speaker 4: this year was Chet Holmgren, you know, falling on his hip. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's out for like eleven weeks to be reevaluated.
Speaker 3: That's like to be looked at, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, he'll be ready. It's like no, no,
Speaker 3: we ain't even looking.
Speaker 4: And he looked like he was really when Byama had
Speaker 4: a really great, like all time great rookie season last
Speaker 4: year and Chet was like a very strong second. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and he looked like he like took a whole leap
Speaker 4: this year. So it is definitely disappointing to see happen.
Speaker 4: Hopefully he comes back strong. I'm hoping that when Byama's
Speaker 4: superhuman flexibility in addition to a superhuman size and athleticism
Speaker 4: keeps things like that from happening to him.
Speaker 3: I hope he has like flubber in his bones. Yeah
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, just to keep him blinky
Speaker 3: blinkie safe because yeah, not a lot of not a
Speaker 3: lot of protection from the body for sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is there's gonna be two seasons really that
Speaker 6: they've me hope check back. But obviously missed his rookie year, right,
Speaker 6: so now this is his third year also, which like
Speaker 6: tells me Sam Press is a really you know, he's
Speaker 6: not a super aggressive GM. But I think like title
Speaker 6: windows are very short. You know, they were the one
Speaker 6: seed last year, and you know they kind of just
Speaker 6: played it safe, and you know that was seen as
Speaker 6: the right move. I just I think you have that
Speaker 6: is this good? You should kind of go you trade Chet? No, no, no,
Speaker 6: you don't, but like you trade Chet, maybe you trade
Speaker 6: one of the five hundred milliear.
Speaker 4: Grumbles that they're going to trade Chet.
Speaker 3: For you heard it right here, right, that's what standing.
Speaker 4: Sorry again, we're just trying to keep up with the SPN.
Speaker 3: They just make.
Speaker 6: To say that they they have like three hundred but
Speaker 6: they have like three hundred million first round.
Speaker 4: Picks the exactly right, So just use those, I guess
Speaker 4: some of them. You don't have to trade all of them,
Speaker 4: but you have the winning lottery ticket that you you're
Speaker 4: sitting on. But right, Yeah, back to a there's for
Speaker 4: all the people who are critical of the shot profile
Speaker 4: and stuff like that, they're in addition to like the blocks,
Speaker 4: there's so many good clips, you know, highlights. They don't
Speaker 4: really highlights for anyone else, but it's like it is
Speaker 4: the very first thing I noticed about his game watching
Speaker 4: him in his very first summer league is the number
Speaker 4: of shots where he's maybe not even the primary defender,
Speaker 4: but he just affects what everybody is doing because they
Speaker 4: know that he's there and that he can block shots
Speaker 4: that had never been blocked in a basketball game before. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Like there's a good clip of I don't know who
Speaker 4: it is, but driving in has their man on their
Speaker 4: hip and just knows the webbiandas behind them and so
Speaker 4: turns and tries to kick it back out and it's
Speaker 4: a terrible pass and I immediate turnover. But yeah, shots
Speaker 4: just like don't go up in the same places people
Speaker 4: get to their spot and then forget that it's their
Speaker 4: spot when he's around. So I just feel like that's
Speaker 4: kind of an underrated thing that will always be a
Speaker 4: part of his game that breaks the floor.
Speaker 6: He breaks like the geometry of the floor, Like he
Speaker 6: can you know, steal a pass while also you know,
Speaker 6: defending the post players. It's just absurd. And I think
Speaker 6: Davis does some of this, but he doesn't have as
Speaker 6: freakish alien arms as Wenby does. And Wemby was already
Speaker 6: in what Defensive Player of the Year conversations a year
Speaker 6: ago is his rookie season and the Spurs you know,
Speaker 6: had the amount of Wednesday Day that they had, So
Speaker 6: he's gonna keep getting better. He's an alien And like,
Speaker 6: you know, I just hope san Antonio never gets a
Speaker 6: real number two, Like they just keep flipping, you know,
Speaker 6: these players, and you know none of them actually turn
Speaker 6: down to the number two, because once he does, he's gonna,
Speaker 6: you know, they're gonna start winning at a at a
Speaker 6: crazy pace.
Speaker 4: Yea is.
Speaker 2: You know that I learned this thing like about bees,
Speaker 2: like if a dark shadow comes over to the ground,
Speaker 2: you know, have you do you know this about bees. No,
Speaker 2: so there's like an instinct for like bees, when like
Speaker 2: a darkness comes over, they immediately cease flying because it's
Speaker 2: like an instinct they developed for like a storm or
Speaker 2: like a tornado that would take them away, is to
Speaker 2: just hug the ground. It's this like in this interesting
Speaker 2: way because like when I watch these clips too, about
Speaker 2: like you're talking about the geometry of everything, if people
Speaker 2: even feel like the shadow of Wemby, it's like that
Speaker 2: instinct w It's like no, no, yeah, down, down, I
Speaker 2: can I just already know that this is not this
Speaker 2: is not the best decision to make. But anyway, a
Speaker 2: little bit, yeah, a little bit of insect facts. You know,
Speaker 2: we like to sprinkle in this show, Miles. You know
Speaker 2: that I'm a huge fan of that insect fact. So
Speaker 2: you just dropped off me.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 4: I think other NBA players should start thinking about being
Speaker 4: like why wh yeah, you know, like just saying like
Speaker 4: little French things out of their breath or like kind
Speaker 4: of mess with people equally like other Spurs players.
Speaker 3: But if it's like any French person, they're like, you're
Speaker 3: not speaking French, you know what I mean? And then
Speaker 3: throw that back to you and then they're like, oh man,
Speaker 3: they're like, sorry, might not even try. Yes, you're right,
Speaker 3: Soccer Blue Milwaukee brother.
Speaker 4: This it doesn't bother me as much because Jannis has
Speaker 4: has the title. He did the thing that was awesome.
Speaker 4: He didn't you know, you can't take that away from him, Like,
Speaker 4: and he's probably gonna eventually go somewhere else. But you know,
Speaker 4: the haters can't really be full blown haters because he's
Speaker 4: already done it. That said, this is yeah, this is bad.
Speaker 4: I don't know. The team just doesn't work as currently constituted.
Speaker 4: It's just wild that they were like the coach is
Speaker 4: the problem and then like they've been way worse in
Speaker 4: terms of win's losses since they made the coaching change.
Speaker 4: I don't know the answer here, superducer Jabari. Can they
Speaker 4: get coach bud back is you know you don't you
Speaker 4: don't hear about those changes that don't recent.
Speaker 2: Google searches in Milwaukee can get coach, but ten trade
Speaker 2: coach back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're.
Speaker 2: Two and eight and yeah, and it just feels like
Speaker 2: it gets like just the situation gets a little bit
Speaker 2: more negative and more negative.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's funny because I went back and after Giannis
Speaker 6: won the title in twenty twenty one, he had a
Speaker 6: quote he's like, yeah, we won the championship and if
Speaker 6: we don't do it again, it's okay. And obviously that
Speaker 6: quote has died in three years because it's you know,
Speaker 6: there's trade, you know, conversations and stuff like that. But yes,
Speaker 6: it's funny to watch them kind of just age. And
Speaker 6: this is kind of what happens to title teams. Right
Speaker 6: when you win a championship, you pay the role players,
Speaker 6: and some of them you overpay. And now, like these
Speaker 6: role players are old, and then when you trade for
Speaker 6: Damian Lillard, you functionally like change the core of what
Speaker 6: your team's built around. So they were you know before
Speaker 6: it was Drew Holliday and it was a prime Joannice
Speaker 6: is still in his prime, but like Brook Lopez was
Speaker 6: a DPO y you know, contender for years. Gianness was
Speaker 6: also that. So they were like a lockdown defense with
Speaker 6: Bud and kind of a regular season wins in machine
Speaker 6: and now like I see the low lights of Damian
Speaker 6: Lillard defense, it's like what did you think you were getting?
Speaker 6: Like what player did you like? Like he dies on screens,
Speaker 6: he's died on screen since his rookie year, Like Dame
Speaker 6: is not defended at all, but it's now It's just
Speaker 6: they have no one to surround him with. And you
Speaker 6: combine old Brook Lopez with Dame and a team that
Speaker 6: doesn't switch, and Gianni's gonna have like forty plus and
Speaker 6: they still lose. And I just like, if you're going
Speaker 6: to fire a coach at thirty and thirteen, you better
Speaker 6: go get like Eric Spolstra instead. They did that to
Speaker 6: go get Doc Rivers. It's just every Doc Rivers team
Speaker 6: I feel like implodes and like just strage his way,
Speaker 6: the Ben Simmons situation, the Kawhi Paul George stuff, Like
Speaker 6: every single time a Doc Rivers team just implodes. So, yeah,
Speaker 6: two and eight, I don't see this getting better anytime soon.
Speaker 6: In Middleton's still out, They're lucky. The East is so bad.
Speaker 6: I think there's only two teams over five hundred, so
Speaker 6: they'll have a chance to kind of recoup some wins.
Speaker 6: They play the Bulls four times, they played the injured
Speaker 6: six Ers for no I mean they played they played
Speaker 6: bad teams like four times a year, but they play
Speaker 6: a lot of bad teams.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we'll see the Sixers. I we do have
Speaker 4: a recent MVP who might be coming back from injury
Speaker 4: at some point in the not too distant future, so
Speaker 4: we'll see.
Speaker 3: Should we talk about the Lakers?
Speaker 4: I mean a little bit.
Speaker 3: I think since Roger is here and you know that
Speaker 3: I love my Lakers. We're six and four. Our home
Speaker 3: record I watering. Our record on the road also eye
Speaker 3: watering in a different way. We're one and four, five
Speaker 3: and zero at home.
Speaker 4: Let's just focus on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's focus on that. Can we just can we
Speaker 3: just do like home games? Is that cool? So?
Speaker 4: Like, I've learned a couple of things in the past
Speaker 4: week about like how you can treat the media and
Speaker 4: like kind of get away with it. What if, like
Speaker 4: you just didn't tell people about the one and the
Speaker 4: four on the road because like the only one they're
Speaker 4: seeing in person.
Speaker 3: Nay defeated doing exactly. We're the Calves, dude, We're like
Speaker 3: the calves. Why is no one talking about we're the
Speaker 3: calves at home?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say this. I was very cynical about jj Reddick.
Speaker 2: I was very unsure, and despite this, I thought we
Speaker 2: were gonna be I thought.
Speaker 3: We were gonna be worse off than six and four,
Speaker 3: to be honest, and I'm I.
Speaker 2: Am heartened by what I see and I am I
Speaker 2: do like to see that there's flexibility. I do like
Speaker 2: to see that we're willing to Nah, this isn't working.
Speaker 2: I think you need to go to the second unit.
Speaker 2: Let's try something different.
Speaker 3: But man, I'm also just worried about the defense from
Speaker 3: our guards is also just another part. I'm just like,
Speaker 3: there's so many clips I see like Austin Reeves just
Speaker 3: get blown by and he's like, come on, dude, on
Speaker 3: a beach. Wild, Dude, it's wild.
Speaker 2: But I mean, yeah, how do you look at the
Speaker 2: evolution because I I mean from my fan not being
Speaker 2: close up as a journalist's perspective, I'm like, what I
Speaker 2: do like is that they look like they're bought in
Speaker 2: to what JJ is putting down, and it looks like
Speaker 2: they do like even when ars like like, there's a
Speaker 2: level of accountability self accountability that I do appreciate and
Speaker 2: I don't I'm not hallucinating that, right, It feels like
Speaker 2: that's very much what's happening despite the street and performances.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's funny because they're the only team over
Speaker 6: five hundred that has a negative net rating like every
Speaker 6: other team is, you know, in the positive net which
Speaker 6: I think kind of shows you kind of how the
Speaker 6: season has gone so far. Obviously the three and three
Speaker 6: and h start, then they lost on the road to
Speaker 6: Phoenix and some of those games, Like I'm not blaming
Speaker 6: this on Lebron, but like you have a fourty year
Speaker 6: old superstar, right, so like the the needs for him
Speaker 6: are different, and so like when they played the Pistons
Speaker 6: on the road for example, which is one of the
Speaker 6: losses that they have, the team kind of goes as
Speaker 6: Lebron goes, especially on his energy level sometimes, and I
Speaker 6: thought the whole team kind of came out very lackadaisical.
Speaker 6: But I think this team when like Lebron's locked in
Speaker 6: and obviously eighty has been the MVP. I think so
Speaker 6: far he's averaging over thirty points a game and he's
Speaker 6: had thirty I think every.
Speaker 4: SINGVP league wide MVP, he'd be your pick.
Speaker 6: I think so right now, if the Lakers can like
Speaker 6: pick up a couple more wins in terms of the seating,
Speaker 6: I think he can really right, you know, get AVP
Speaker 6: this year, He's he's just been incredible. This is the
Speaker 6: best offensive season the eighties had. But the main concern
Speaker 6: to me, obviously I think he spoke about is the defense.
Speaker 6: We're twenty I believe eighth in defense right now, twenty
Speaker 6: sixth in defense currently and the guards. And that's like
Speaker 6: I tweeted before the season started, I was like, Cam
Speaker 6: Ridders is going to have to play and I got
Speaker 6: killed for that. You know, They're like, that's why you
Speaker 6: fire Darvin Ham Like I just look at this yeah, right,
Speaker 6: Like I just look at this roster. I'm like, there's
Speaker 6: just not enough athletic footspeed for you know, a wing
Speaker 6: who can really and Cam can really guard. Like the
Speaker 6: sad part is like he's a really good defender. It's
Speaker 6: just I don't think that's what he thinks he is
Speaker 6: in his head. Cam Riders still, you know, wants to
Speaker 6: be the Cameraritis that came out of Duke, but like
Speaker 6: he can really defend. He's he's a super skilled wing defender.
Speaker 6: And JJ saw that and when started him Delos coming
Speaker 6: off the bench. We'll see how body in he is
Speaker 6: with that. As the season goes, I think wins will
Speaker 6: kind of determine, you know, how invested he is in
Speaker 6: that situation. But yeah, they look good so far. They
Speaker 6: have some winnable games coming up. They have a game
Speaker 6: tomorrow against Memphis, who you know, Jaw I think is
Speaker 6: going to be out. Also an in season tournament game,
Speaker 6: but yeah, i'd like to start. So far, JJ has
Speaker 6: been good, eighty has been awesome. The bench scoring is
Speaker 6: still a concern of mine. The backup senate ranked seven, Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's and Max Christy was a guy that, like a
Speaker 6: lot of people hope would really you know, become something
Speaker 6: this year, and they paid him and he just has
Speaker 6: not been good and he's already collecting DMPs, you know,
Speaker 6: because of Cam Reddish. That's why I think d Low
Speaker 6: went to the bench. But overall this is a solid team.
Speaker 6: I think they need another move, of course, like just
Speaker 6: to step into that next tier, you know, in the West.
Speaker 6: But right now I think they can like hover around
Speaker 6: like this, you know, win profile and we'll see how
Speaker 6: it goes. But their numbers a little skewed because one
Speaker 6: of the wins, Ron just went nuclear against the Kings,
Speaker 6: which I feel like only happens to teams like the Kings.
Speaker 6: Like the Kings just get these weird.
Speaker 4: Fans are so dismissive of Kings and Clippers. It's just
Speaker 4: in your DNA. You can't help it. You can't help it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 4: and in a state where that is possible, AD is
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Speaker 3: That was pretty spicy meatball. You don't want that. You
Speaker 3: don't want to see?
Speaker 4: Sorry, six for VP.
Speaker 3: I feel like the.
Speaker 4: Lakers are usually better than their net rating, like the past,
Speaker 4: like since Lebron, like Lebron will just pick and choose
Speaker 4: his spots, and sometimes when the team doesn't have it
Speaker 4: and he doesn't have it, he's you know, you guys
Speaker 4: will lose by more than expected. I've always felt like
Speaker 4: net ratings not the best way to gauge how good
Speaker 4: the Lakers are.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm so the line the data I usually look
Speaker 6: at that is like how good are you when your
Speaker 6: stars are on the floor, right, Yeah, I know we
Speaker 6: didn't talk about Milwaukee, but like Damon Giannis are a
Speaker 6: minus one point eight together, which is horrific. Right, You're
Speaker 6: losing the minutes with your two players that make sixty
Speaker 6: million dollars a year, Like, that's just that just can't happen.
Speaker 6: And lebron ad right now are a minus. I think
Speaker 6: they're just under a negative around minus point five, which again,
Speaker 6: like that's just you just can't have that happen. And
Speaker 6: I think that's not sustainable. I think that will pick
Speaker 6: up as the season goes on, but yeah, that that's
Speaker 6: where they're at right now. And look, Austin Reeves has
Speaker 6: been handed the keys now to the to the point
Speaker 6: guard position, and he looks you know, he looks like
Speaker 6: and you just talked about his defense. I don't think like,
Speaker 6: if Austin Reeves is your best defender and your starting lineup,
Speaker 6: you have a problem. Yeah, that's why I think like
Speaker 6: Camras got inserted in there, and I think that's helped
Speaker 6: his legs as well. Right, Yeah, so he's looked good.
Speaker 6: And it's funny because the Lakers and Bucks are only
Speaker 6: two teams that have teammates that are averaging eighteen five
Speaker 6: and four. That's Damon Giannis Milwaukee, and that's Austin and
Speaker 6: Lebron on the Lakers. Every but obviously two teams going
Speaker 6: in different directions. But that's been it's been interesting to watch,
Speaker 6: Like d Lo kind of over the summer, JJ said,
Speaker 6: Delo is the guy he talked to the most over
Speaker 6: the summer. They texted the most. Maybe that's the only
Speaker 6: guy he had his number, but like that's the guy
Speaker 6: that he said they texted the most over the summer.
Speaker 6: To go from that to now de Lo coming off
Speaker 6: the bench, that's quite a start kind of difference in
Speaker 6: just a few weeks.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's seems outwardly handling it somewhat well, like
Speaker 3: he's not you know, he's just saying like, look, I'm
Speaker 3: just we're fine. Yeah, like I'm here to win. If that,
Speaker 3: if that's what it took the summer to get to,
Speaker 3: then fine. But I'm sure that JJ was probably looking
Speaker 3: for just that little bit extra. But we don't. I
Speaker 3: won't hold my breath. But before we take a break,
Speaker 3: what do you think? What are we?
Speaker 2: Are we what's Rob Polink going to do? Are we
Speaker 2: just waiting for for Vando to come back. Are we
Speaker 2: gonna get active here because I'm so curious about what,
Speaker 2: Like that's a huge question mark that is going to
Speaker 2: affect the rest of the.
Speaker 6: Tame, right, Yeah, it's it's you know, it's interesting because
Speaker 6: I think Rob has kind of talked about and they've
Speaker 6: kind of preached development, right, and they're preach inner kind
Speaker 6: of growth in terms of their young players that just
Speaker 6: hasn't worked out so far, and this front office hasn't
Speaker 6: really shown that they're going to go all in on
Speaker 6: a team that's hovering around playing territory, right, Like the
Speaker 6: most they've traded is like one first round pick, and
Speaker 6: I think the Russell Westbrook thing has kind of traumatized them,
Speaker 6: and you know, going all in for a single player.
Speaker 6: You know, Levin is a guy that pops up a lot,
Speaker 6: but Levine has a lot of you know similar I mean,
Speaker 6: I think he's a better player than Russ was when
Speaker 6: we traded for him. But the contract, the knees, right,
Speaker 6: all that comes together. So I think they're going to
Speaker 6: try and look for a small deal. To me, like
Speaker 6: they need a backup center and they need one more wing.
Speaker 6: Like if you get those two things I think we're cooking.
Speaker 6: Like you get a door if any Smith or Cam Johnson,
Speaker 6: and you get like you can get a Walker Kessler
Speaker 6: out of Utah or you know, like a backup center
Speaker 6: that you can just rely on. Right now, it's Jackson Hayes.
Speaker 6: Like and Jackson Hayes has played fine, but like Jackson
Speaker 6: Hayes as your starter is, you know you're gonna lose
Speaker 6: a lot of games if Ady hasn't missed any time.
Speaker 6: So I think that's what they're going to look at.
Speaker 6: And I don't expect them to make a big splash
Speaker 6: unless this team is like the two seed at the
Speaker 6: All Star break then like they're like, oh yeah, let's
Speaker 6: go all in. But I just don't see a huge
Speaker 6: trade coming, you know down the line.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just don't know what it is. But something's
Speaker 3: got to give, for sure.
Speaker 4: We should just because it's been getting some you know,
Speaker 4: national international media attention mentioned like so heading into the season,
Speaker 4: I had a take that JJ Reddick's hair was too
Speaker 4: good to be an NBA coach. Uh and a lot
Speaker 4: of people are pointing out the like five and zero
Speaker 4: at home in LA where that sort of hairstyle might
Speaker 4: be like more accepted and like just you know, not
Speaker 4: stand out as much one and four on the road,
Speaker 4: where like, I don't know, that's not a basketball coach.
Speaker 4: Why don't the Lakers have a basketball coach? They just
Speaker 4: have that dude in a boy band over there in
Speaker 4: the dunks, right, So it's just a thing to keep
Speaker 4: an eye on. I guess I don't. I don't know
Speaker 4: that it's like explained everything, but it's definitely a thing
Speaker 4: that's being that has some people's eyebrows raised just for
Speaker 4: a second, like noted, noted, you see the hair? Is
Speaker 4: that too good for Utah? Is that too good for deployment?
Speaker 3: What is that hair?
Speaker 4: Come out? Let that sit on the bench with the Lakers,
Speaker 4: he's more handsome than any of the players. You got
Speaker 4: thoughts on Well, I'm just I think I think it
Speaker 4: causes problems.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 2: Should take JJ bredde okay, jadache and we'll be right
Speaker 2: back with the.
Speaker 3: Rapid fire round of questioning.
Speaker 4: Rather, JJ rhetoric is out of control, and we're back.
Speaker 3: Raj Chabalu. We love having you here, man, But this
Speaker 3: is the part that that most of our guests dread.
Speaker 3: It's the hot seat.
Speaker 6: I remember this. I remember this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I know you do.
Speaker 3: I know you.
Speaker 4: The holidays coming up, so I'm gonna go full Sanna.
Speaker 3: You're going on him. Okay, he's doing how cute?
Speaker 4: Sam Samon drinking? Why is he laughing so hard at nothing?
Speaker 3: A sixers jersey? But this is the four quarter rapid
Speaker 3: fire round of questioning. Look, Roger, you're gonna ask you
Speaker 3: a question you just think, you just respond. You don't
Speaker 3: take too long. You show everybody how quick your mind is,
Speaker 3: because if you take too long, we will be so
Speaker 3: rude to you that you will reconsider coming back. Although
Speaker 3: and we will apologize to you profusely off mic so
Speaker 3: that we make things okay. But I don't want to
Speaker 3: tell the listeners that even though I just did, Okay,
Speaker 3: are you ready, Raj, let's do it.
Speaker 4: He's not ready.
Speaker 3: I know, I know.
Speaker 5: They always say they're ready, Jack, they always say they're
Speaker 5: ready like a little baby lamb out there ready, Bryan.
Speaker 5: Oh man, this is like I've never seen them like this.
Speaker 5: I'm charged up. I'm charged up.
Speaker 4: You're going first, man, who's going like a like a
Speaker 4: dang Now it's like a dang street light. Uh, why
Speaker 4: don't you go first. I think you all right, think
Speaker 4: you crafted this first one. Look, we're playing pick up hoops.
Speaker 3: With characters from the TV show The Office.
Speaker 2: We just got the first pick and took doctor j
Speaker 2: who was in an episode in the last season.
Speaker 3: And each player, each person that you see is in
Speaker 3: their prime.
Speaker 4: Was such a big office head that like, he pulled
Speaker 4: that last second.
Speaker 3: I had to. We had another one.
Speaker 2: We had another written down, No doctor j doctor was there.
Speaker 2: But we also made a rule that basically said, nobody
Speaker 2: who played in the NBA is selectable. But that's okay
Speaker 2: because we picked the only person that has played in
Speaker 2: the right.
Speaker 4: They were like, oh, that's against the rules. Well, we
Speaker 4: can't allow. We can't say you can't do it anymore.
Speaker 4: So that that's how it happened.
Speaker 3: What happened was that exactly, So who are you picking
Speaker 3: any character?
Speaker 6: So it has to be Jim, right, he was the
Speaker 6: best player in the Office. I think he actually played basketball,
Speaker 6: you know, in you know, high school or college. I
Speaker 6: don't remembers played I remember, I'm.
Speaker 3: Sorry the character, yes, oh, the character Jim.
Speaker 4: Jim.
Speaker 3: I guess we payed, okay, I.
Speaker 4: Guess we're in the world, right, this is a great
Speaker 4: point by rog We're in the world.
Speaker 6: We're in office, aren't we He was actually the best
Speaker 6: player and he killed in that little run they had
Speaker 6: inside there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hate that's the right answer. I'm thinking outside
Speaker 4: of the world of the Office, where I don't really
Speaker 4: care about Jay.
Speaker 3: But because how would doctor j Prime Doctor J beat
Speaker 3: Prime Jim Helper?
Speaker 4: Right? Oh no, we're still going to win. I just
Speaker 4: hate that that's the right decision. We're still going to
Speaker 4: destroy them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: Also shout to Kevin Malone played by Brian Bomgardner, who
Speaker 2: in that basketball episode there are just like these b
Speaker 2: roll shots of him just be is just weady, weady,
Speaker 2: and because he actually is a huge, huge sports fan
Speaker 2: and athletes, so that was also the correct But.
Speaker 4: Man, he's no but he's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Rog Neil did with that one.
Speaker 4: All right, where are you on business decisions as a player?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 4: We we saw a famous business decision in the world
Speaker 4: of college hoops where the coach's son got in for
Speaker 4: a second and decided to challenge someone at the rim
Speaker 4: and got flipped upside down. Some good ones in the
Speaker 4: n B. A uh Giannis got right out of the
Speaker 4: way when somebody was about to when kat was about
Speaker 4: to yoke on him against He's like, no, you may not.
Speaker 4: I will not be in that photograph like like it was.
Speaker 4: He was avoiding the paparazzi. Uh Kate Cunningham made a
Speaker 4: slightly worse business decision with Jayalen Green. He got picked
Speaker 4: by uh, I don't know who was guarding him, but
Speaker 4: then they dished to Jalen Green and uh, here we'll
Speaker 4: play the audio.
Speaker 3: Man Thompson this time with the defensive play.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I will continue to go up and donk, you're
Speaker 8: a coach, okay in the in this league, all right,
Speaker 8: are your players is allowed to make good business decisions?
Speaker 6: So so really quick at that Jade and cunning I
Speaker 6: don't see that as a business decision though, like Caide was,
Speaker 6: he had he had no time to even think. He
Speaker 6: really just turned around and you know Green Ray dunked
Speaker 6: on him. Yeah, But as a coach, it depends who
Speaker 6: you are, right, Like, I don't need my sixty million
Speaker 6: dollars superstar like getting in the way of every single
Speaker 6: dunk that's you know, trying to be created. But if
Speaker 6: I put you in there specifically as a body to
Speaker 6: be the energy guy right, then, No, you cannot get
Speaker 6: out of the way. Like in some it's like if
Speaker 6: Zion's coming down four hundred, like in one hundred miles
Speaker 6: per hour. You know, some of those I get it.
Speaker 6: But yeah, if you're in there specifically to go and
Speaker 6: take charges, then you go and take charges.
Speaker 4: But I don't really it's about to be hurt Locker
Speaker 4: in here if you try and go up against him,
Speaker 4: it's about to we're gonna be sea body parts.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But if it's Lebron then yeah, get out of the way.
Speaker 6: It's all right in November. I think you're taking charges
Speaker 6: in November, like let's let's save let's save those.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and after the person gets blown up, what do
Speaker 4: you like when they come back to the bench, are
Speaker 4: you like, hey man, great love that from you like
Speaker 4: waiter or do you just like kind of try not
Speaker 4: to make eye contact with No.
Speaker 6: So, like that's you know, that's a good play. That's
Speaker 6: the charges are.
Speaker 4: That's a good basketball play.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the super Woman, Like that's a huge momentum play.
Speaker 6: Every single you know, Arena gets up for a charge.
Speaker 6: I know some people want to take the charge out
Speaker 6: of basketball. I disagree. I think it's an important momentum play.
Speaker 6: That's that's involved, you know.
Speaker 3: And when on a run. Absolutely. Okay, here's the next question.
Speaker 3: Please name your Lakers Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 6: Lakers Mount Rushmore. Okay, have cob and it.
Speaker 4: Can and it can be.
Speaker 3: It can be anyone who is relevant. So I will
Speaker 3: say this, we can zoom out of anyone who is
Speaker 3: relevant to the Lakers organization because it.
Speaker 4: Could be presidents.
Speaker 3: Man, it could be whatever.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: There could be Lincoln Jefferson.
Speaker 4: You're a Lakers fan Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 6: All right, so obviously you know Kobe would be on it,
Speaker 6: Magic be on it, Kareem is on it. I think
Speaker 6: Lebron is on it.
Speaker 4: How many?
Speaker 3: Just four?
Speaker 4: You just c as far?
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, that that would be my mountain.
Speaker 4: Lebron made it. That's I'm seeing growth from you Lakers fans.
Speaker 6: No shock, huh, that's a good point. No chick hearn No,
Speaker 6: I would keep it.
Speaker 4: Know what hern looks like?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 4: What you don't say that to me?
Speaker 3: I'm forty, I'm a man.
Speaker 4: No, Jerry West, I mean he got the logo, he's iconic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's around Okay now, and I don't mean to
Speaker 3: pick apart.
Speaker 6: I'm just I'm just making sure. I'm just confirming, yes,
Speaker 6: stick with those, all right.
Speaker 4: Finally, the Lakers have final possession, down to Game seven
Speaker 4: of the finals. You can pick one player sees this
Speaker 4: is already know the answer this then exclude someone. Exclude
Speaker 4: the person. You can pick one player. But Kobe just
Speaker 4: twists his ankle. Uh so he's out one player from
Speaker 4: throughout franchise history that the ball is in their hands
Speaker 4: just to get a bucket. Who are you putting the
Speaker 4: ball in the hands?
Speaker 3: Wait?
Speaker 6: Is it get a bucket? Or is it just like
Speaker 6: hit the finals?
Speaker 3: We need to we need a three, you need like
Speaker 3: how much.
Speaker 6: Tame is left?
Speaker 3: Okay about this, we got one possession. Let's just say
Speaker 3: we're down one. So so just so anything, any any
Speaker 3: score is enough.
Speaker 6: And you said Kobe twisted his ankle.
Speaker 4: Kobe just twisted his ankle, by the way, that would
Speaker 4: be the right answer, but go ahead.
Speaker 3: Obviously it's two obvious the questions. So we had altered
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 6: So so I think this is the this is the
Speaker 6: right answer. I think I think it's shot right, Like
Speaker 6: that's who you'd have to give the ball to for
Speaker 6: one like one basket at the end, and you don't
Speaker 6: have Kobe available. Shock hit him when they counted. That's
Speaker 6: you know, that's the hit when Wow, Lebron and Shaq
Speaker 6: would be close. But I think Shaq is you know,
Speaker 6: known as the most dominant big man and or dominant
Speaker 6: player ever. I think Shaq, if you just needed a basket,
Speaker 6: you're down too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Did Shack have any iconic game winners?
Speaker 6: Mmm?
Speaker 3: No, right, there was one Jabari is referencing against Utah
Speaker 3: okay many years ago.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean the Barn game in Blue Chips.
Speaker 4: I think he said game on that one. I'll you
Speaker 4: dunk that was that was a game winner technically, So
Speaker 4: there you go.
Speaker 3: All right. I like it.
Speaker 4: It's the wrong answer, but I like it.
Speaker 3: That's also the right answer.
Speaker 4: Actually is also the right answer because you know all
Speaker 4: these yeah, right answer you got? Yeah, sorry, this one
Speaker 4: is yeah. No, I'm being told by the judges you
Speaker 4: got all correct answer.
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