Speaker 1: Well, there are plenty of teams that are on the
Speaker 1: move all around the NBA. I mean, I wish the
Speaker 1: Lakers could be doing more, but look, that's beside the point.
Speaker 1: And as we had closer to the All Star weekend,
Speaker 1: we'll look into that and we'll break it all down
Speaker 1: as well as the state of the Clippers with Clutch
Speaker 1: Point Beat writer Tomaras. Early on today's episode, I'm Miles
Speaker 1: Gray and I'm Jack O'Brien, and this is Miles and Jack.
Speaker 1: Can you say that NBA teams are on the move?
Speaker 1: Do you just mean they're moving around on the court,
Speaker 1: because that's not true. They're making moves. They're making moves
Speaker 1: up and down. The standings were static. I feel like
Speaker 1: some we're stagnant. Other there's movements. But yes, because there's
Speaker 1: also they have away games, so they have to travel
Speaker 1: to those, which they're these these crazy guys are moving
Speaker 1: all around the country. We'll see where they end up.
Speaker 1: The next Lakers are in New York. The heck is
Speaker 1: that about? But yes, to welcome our guest, Tomas Ale. Welcome,
Speaker 1: welcome man, and thank you for joining us on. Appreciate
Speaker 1: having me. Thank yeah, thanks for doing it so lifelong
Speaker 1: nb A wops, whops said man without a country a
Speaker 1: little bit, but you cut you kind of pulled for
Speaker 1: the Clippers. Yeah, I mean, if I'll be honest, I
Speaker 1: was a I'm a lifelong Bron guy. I mean I
Speaker 1: grew up watching him, so that that's kind of my guy. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, again, like I said, I just kind
Speaker 1: of just didn't want to root for the you know,
Speaker 1: the team that everyone's rooting for growing up here in
Speaker 1: l A. Everyone's going for the Lakers. It seemed too
Speaker 1: easy for him at the time, you know, three o two,
Speaker 1: they would just winning championships left and right. It's like
Speaker 1: it's too easy. So I said, let's make life hell.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the opposite of the life, absolute hell.
Speaker 1: And uh, I mean yeah, been covering the Clippers now
Speaker 1: for about seven years. I mean also games were more
Speaker 1: affordable to go to all. Yes, it was just it's
Speaker 1: easier to get into the into the team, into the
Speaker 1: sport that way. So uh yeah, I've covered him seven
Speaker 1: years now and it's been a blast. I love it, honestly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Has it been painful for you since, like being split
Speaker 1: allegiance with Lebron on the Lakers? No, I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: the first two years we're you know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, being star struck and learning the way
Speaker 1: how things go. But it's been I think, my I'm
Speaker 1: pretty objective now. I just I'm just a basketball fan,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. And you know, um, I
Speaker 1: did get to INDIVI Lebron for the first time last year,
Speaker 1: and that was one of the you know, the long
Speaker 1: I had been strut talking a long time until lasting
Speaker 1: my question. I was like, I'm asking Brown a question.
Speaker 1: That's the guy I watched growing up, you know, ten
Speaker 1: twelve years ago, and now I'm asking the question. So
Speaker 1: you hear his voice come out of his head and
Speaker 1: you're like, that's Lebron James's voice coming out and I'm
Speaker 1: talking to that voice. And let me tell you that
Speaker 1: the the aunts and uncles who see that, and you know,
Speaker 1: the parents obviously gotta post that on on Facebook and
Speaker 1: let the family members know. So tattoo of that moment
Speaker 1: that you might got right after embedded in history. But now,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm pretty objective now. I I'm just a
Speaker 1: general basketball fan. I like watching you know, I'll watch seven.
Speaker 1: I got leaked my TVs on and be a TV
Speaker 1: when there's no games on. So I'm just hoops at
Speaker 1: this point, who's You're like? Okay, if if you you
Speaker 1: know as a fan, what's like the next team? You
Speaker 1: You're like, I really like what I'm seeing out of them.
Speaker 1: I really like the Thunder for one with Alexander Um.
Speaker 1: I'm a big Sacramento guy. Ever since they had DeMarcus Cousins.
Speaker 1: I really just rooted for him and the Kings because
Speaker 1: they have such a passionate fan base, but really never
Speaker 1: felt like they can get over the humps. So like,
Speaker 1: remember this year one of our parts, I predicted they
Speaker 1: were gonna make the playoffs, not even be a playing team,
Speaker 1: but I got laughed at. So definitely, I'm definitely enjoying
Speaker 1: this and the Kings of Thunder, I would say, um,
Speaker 1: I think those are my two teams. I always like
Speaker 1: watching Damian Lillard. Lillard He's he's fun to watch. Um,
Speaker 1: it's really fun to watch. Lately, I love watch Dame
Speaker 1: when he is like just has it going and you
Speaker 1: know it's going in before it even leaves his hands.
Speaker 1: When he stepping into those thirty five footers, you just
Speaker 1: just got a good feeling about those the confidence in
Speaker 1: the swagger he pulls up walking just like it's almost
Speaker 1: like I think that's it in Yeah, Like the slower
Speaker 1: he moves, You're like, oh, I don't. I just know
Speaker 1: by how slow he's moving this is going in because
Speaker 1: he's just like I'm I'm just seeing the matrix just
Speaker 1: moving within and you're like, there goes. Man's at his
Speaker 1: own pace and pulls up and hits it. Things are
Speaker 1: slowing down so much for him that they slowed down
Speaker 1: for us watching him. It's like, how does that times
Speaker 1: dilating for me as well? On Twitter video clip? I mean,
Speaker 1: that's real with Luca. We're gonna talk about some some
Speaker 1: Luca performances, but man, he seems to be moving. I
Speaker 1: feel like that would be a very frustrating person to
Speaker 1: guard if I were an NBA player, and just seeing
Speaker 1: him do things in slow motion, it really is so
Speaker 1: casual and so for him, it's it's amazing. That's what
Speaker 1: I think is so that's so like it draws me
Speaker 1: in because I think it's because he's so slow moving,
Speaker 1: not like in a bad way, like he moves at
Speaker 1: the speed he needs to. It just underlines his like
Speaker 1: mastery of shooting too. They're like, yeah, he's just you can't.
Speaker 1: He's like the old wise man on the mountain. Basically,
Speaker 1: I always look at him as like very quick though
Speaker 1: you when you are you talking about like his step
Speaker 1: backs and like just like like he he has a
Speaker 1: casualness to his shooting that I mean, like that's what
Speaker 1: I mean. That's what I mean, Like not slow, but
Speaker 1: like it's there's he doesn't feel like he's frantic when
Speaker 1: he shoots. He's so calm and collected that it feels
Speaker 1: like it's slow. Like he's like, yeah, man, I got this,
Speaker 1: just confident is not going to get blocked. Whereas if
Speaker 1: I was shooting and somebody's within four ft of me,
Speaker 1: I would close my eyes and turn my face away
Speaker 1: before because I would be so certain that I was
Speaker 1: about it about to get sent. I was listing that
Speaker 1: with Chris Middleton too. I was watching the Bucks Pelicans game,
Speaker 1: and he just he shoots the most contested shots like
Speaker 1: he is just like it doesn't matter. He will he
Speaker 1: will shoot. When you have your hands in his face
Speaker 1: and aren't like moving anywhere, he'll still just like put
Speaker 1: it up. He's like thank you. Yeah, that's just and
Speaker 1: there are two of the best shooters in the league.
Speaker 1: So I mean, speaking of shooters, let's talk about the Clippers,
Speaker 1: the best three point shooting road team out there. I
Speaker 1: witnessed that recently when the lake would happen. First, Oh,
Speaker 1: I just remember a certain point, I was like, they're
Speaker 1: shooting sixty percent from there, and I turned into a
Speaker 1: husk of a man and I blew away in the
Speaker 1: wind in a thousand pieces because I was so destroyed
Speaker 1: by that, Like every single thing was dropping. Like how
Speaker 1: are you feeling? I mean, like your y'all are cooking
Speaker 1: right now? Yeah, I mean, look, the biggest thing that
Speaker 1: I've said this for a while is just they they've
Speaker 1: got to stay healthy. They they're going to be a
Speaker 1: contender if they stay healthy. Their problem is they just
Speaker 1: can't put together more than four or five six games
Speaker 1: fully healthy. I mean, at the halfway point of the season,
Speaker 1: I think they played four games fully healthy total, none
Speaker 1: of them consecutive. At two of those games quite coming
Speaker 1: off the bench, which, like Tyler said, it was disgusting
Speaker 1: and nasty is the word he used, And I was like, no,
Speaker 1: I was killed immediately, So like, I don't even know
Speaker 1: if you really count those um, I mean, yeah, if
Speaker 1: they stay healthy, I still think they need a backup center.
Speaker 1: I think at the start of the U I even
Speaker 1: thought they needed one, UM just to you know, give
Speaker 1: a visa zoobot some some some rest and not have
Speaker 1: to play them forty minutes a night some nights. But yeah,
Speaker 1: if they stay healthy, they'll be okay. I think they
Speaker 1: got a really good you know nucleus here, a good core.
Speaker 1: UM good offensively. I think they're the best defensive team
Speaker 1: in the West, and I think they're third overall I
Speaker 1: want to say in um like defensive ratings. So they're
Speaker 1: up there. They're up there right now. They just got
Speaker 1: a string games together. Um, stay healthy. There's no back
Speaker 1: to backs here until after the All Star break. I think,
Speaker 1: like March second and third, they got a good stretch
Speaker 1: here to put some good games together. Um. I think
Speaker 1: the next ten or eleven, I believe it is, and
Speaker 1: and really stay healthy and put together some wins and
Speaker 1: see what they can do. Really yeah, And like with
Speaker 1: the trades, like you know, the rumors, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of Fred van Vleet talk, but it sounds
Speaker 1: like you're more like you got around Mason Plumbly maybe yeah,
Speaker 1: or what you think of, like how do you feel?
Speaker 1: Because I feel like those are the two rumors I've
Speaker 1: heard a lot about, like swirling around the Clippers. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think there's there's just there was a lot out
Speaker 1: of There was a lot of mouse turner buzz for one, um,
Speaker 1: but I think that was with a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Mason Plumber is obviously a guy who he's having a
Speaker 1: career year right now. I think he's averaging sixteen and
Speaker 1: eleven in January, quietly because Charlotte is awful and no
Speaker 1: one watches it. Um Isaiah Hartenstegned their former player who's
Speaker 1: there last year. He's another option. I think the Knicks
Speaker 1: are obviously playing him more now because of the injury
Speaker 1: to Mitchell Robinson. But he's the guy who I think
Speaker 1: was on the radar. Tyler knows how to use him.
Speaker 1: I can't say he's being used to perfection in New
Speaker 1: York undertop Thibodeaux. Um So I think that's another option
Speaker 1: as well, And I think there's there's different guys around
Speaker 1: the league, whether it might be like a ten day
Speaker 1: type of guy or a I think they have a
Speaker 1: trade exception still available so they can also absorb someone
Speaker 1: into that. I believe it's about eight or nine millions. So, um,
Speaker 1: there's options out there, it's just what the Clippers you.
Speaker 1: You never you almost never see the deal. Um that's
Speaker 1: rumored done, Like last year with Norman Pound Robert Comington,
Speaker 1: that came out of left field. I don't even think
Speaker 1: people knew that Norman Powell was available. Um, you know
Speaker 1: the year before that, I think, uh, they treated lou Williams.
Speaker 1: That was the only one that I felt like it
Speaker 1: felt like it could happen. But even you know, going
Speaker 1: years before that, you had the Blake Griffin Jade, you
Speaker 1: had the Tobias Harris trade to Philly. So like there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of things around them, but whatever is rumored
Speaker 1: usually isn't the what ends up happening, So they kind
Speaker 1: of work in silence. My kind of opinion on anything
Speaker 1: you hear might be other teams leaking it, um, because
Speaker 1: it's certainly not coming from them. You know, they're trying
Speaker 1: to get some leverage or trying to get other teams
Speaker 1: involved or something like that. So the one thing I've
Speaker 1: learned this team really doesn't leak, and anything you hear
Speaker 1: probably from another team with a specific angle. So I
Speaker 1: really you mentioned Fred bend Lee. I'm not really sure
Speaker 1: that a point guard is what they need. I mean,
Speaker 1: they went out this past off season got John Wall
Speaker 1: who hadn't played I think played forty games in about
Speaker 1: three years. Um. I mean, look, he's been solid. But again,
Speaker 1: a guy who hasn't played three years, a guy who
Speaker 1: was a former star acclimenting to a venture role, um
Speaker 1: playing limited minutes. That's not easy, uh, easy at all.
Speaker 1: So they've had to It's been a process to get
Speaker 1: getting him acclimated. And you know he started the season
Speaker 1: off wealth and head of rough stretch here. Um was
Speaker 1: playing well before he got injured. So, um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a long season, a lot, a lot of ups
Speaker 1: and downs. I don't personally feel a point guard is
Speaker 1: what they need right now. I've never really felt that way,
Speaker 1: because you have a guy like Terrence Man, who can
Speaker 1: you know, be your Swiss Army and not I can
Speaker 1: play your point guard player, shooting guard player three or four. Um,
Speaker 1: you have Reggie Jackson obviously, so I felt like they
Speaker 1: had the pieces of Fred VanVleet. I mean, unless you're
Speaker 1: trying to construct the nineteen Raptors all over again. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe I could see it. I don't think it's you know,
Speaker 1: hurt because it was a stretcher where they lost about
Speaker 1: six in a row and I think eight of ten
Speaker 1: or eight of twelve, and it was looking bleak. It
Speaker 1: was looking really bad. So you know, when you win,
Speaker 1: things look better. Yeah, he has friend Lane like had
Speaker 1: a bad season or something, because it does feel like
Speaker 1: people are like, yeah, you gotta get rid of Fred VanVleet.
Speaker 1: Prior to January, he was struggling quite a bit, I
Speaker 1: would say, with the shooting, and I think he was
Speaker 1: doing a bit more off the ball stuff, um, which
Speaker 1: I think he kind of attributed to a slow start.
Speaker 1: Obviously you got Scott Barnes and o g so they
Speaker 1: all got to handle the ball. That being said, friend
Speaker 1: Red Leady is a really really good player. Uh. The
Speaker 1: thing is anyone on the Raptor and this is this
Speaker 1: you know, I've talked about this with some guys, like
Speaker 1: anyone the Raptors is going to have a heavy heavy
Speaker 1: like medical history and the like they have. They've been
Speaker 1: playing like forty minutes at night. If you look at
Speaker 1: the minutes per game for these guys, it's like Pascal
Speaker 1: Cia and Fred rev leto near the top every year
Speaker 1: for the past like four years. So you get these guys,
Speaker 1: they had history. Man, you gotta be careful, you gotta
Speaker 1: you can't be playing them. What's the raptors are playing
Speaker 1: them because they're gonna break down. Um, And I think
Speaker 1: that's a bit of the word. You gotta pay these guys.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna have to trade to get those guys?
Speaker 1: And what does their history look like? All that has
Speaker 1: to factor into it. And you have to worry about
Speaker 1: team chemistry. I got like, um, Reggie Jackson, you know,
Speaker 1: when he wasn't starting a few games, when he wasn't
Speaker 1: playing a few games ago with John Long the rotation, Uh,
Speaker 1: he was a little frustrated and it showed. So you
Speaker 1: don't want to mess with team chemistry. At the same time,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things to balance. This is so
Speaker 1: many things about it. Yeah, I mean, I guess we
Speaker 1: can look forward to being surprised by it being none
Speaker 1: of these things and being something that totally takes is
Speaker 1: by surprise because a lot of people don't know this.
Speaker 1: But the little Wayne line real GE's moving silence like
Speaker 1: LS was about Lawrence Frank, Like he's on the record
Speaker 1: saying that that's about Lawrence Frank. Yeah, I think the
Speaker 1: real bar was Lawrence Frank moves into silence. But then
Speaker 1: he did the thing the Barden actually worked out, but
Speaker 1: he really wanted to underline that moment. Jerry West, he
Speaker 1: was a consultant and really you know, worked his way
Speaker 1: and worked his magic. That's what I thought, Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: have that. Also, just the the idea of having somebody
Speaker 1: who can shoot, who has playoff experience, finals experience, like
Speaker 1: Fred van Vleet just really really appeals to me as
Speaker 1: a Sixers fan because I don't know, man, the Sixers
Speaker 1: are putting something together. They're won seven of their last eight.
Speaker 1: The Magic are unbeatable, giant killers, but still the Celtics.
Speaker 1: But Who's whose door do they knock on next? It's
Speaker 1: like that very for me. The Sixers had a huge
Speaker 1: win this week against the Nuggets, top team in the West,
Speaker 1: uh M v P leader Yokich. Everybody's like he's he's
Speaker 1: locking it up for a third year in a row,
Speaker 1: and then embat you know, dominated him a Bill Simmons.
Speaker 1: Bill Simmons said he grabbed the race by the you
Speaker 1: know what's Yeah, I don't. I don't. I don't acknowledge.
Speaker 1: I mean, we know that he believes in like verous
Speaker 1: Jenks and this is the riverous riverous Jenks, and he's
Speaker 1: clearly trying to get em beat. Uh you know, have
Speaker 1: him have a have a bad run here, But um,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I still all the playoff talk is
Speaker 1: like I need to see we still we still rely
Speaker 1: on two players who haven't done it in the playoffs
Speaker 1: and embeat. It's been really bad luck with like his
Speaker 1: face repeatedly getting broken from and both with Harden. I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, I'm don't believe in the Sixers. I
Speaker 1: don't believe in them absolutely. I think I think they
Speaker 1: got it. They gotta figure it out right now. I
Speaker 1: mean obviously that that loss of the magic isn't isn't
Speaker 1: working well. But Tyris Max he has been fantastic for
Speaker 1: them that now that he's healthy, James Harden looks like
Speaker 1: a legit point guard. I think he's every ten very
Speaker 1: very quietly this year. I don't think people have talked
Speaker 1: about him enough. Tobias Harris has been solid, gotten better
Speaker 1: as a defenders. So like their top four might be
Speaker 1: the best top four in the league. Did they go
Speaker 1: past the second round? That's the question. That's the question.
Speaker 1: It's all luck, man, It's it's all I mean, who
Speaker 1: do they lose to last year? The Heat? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, it's a lot of luck, a lot of
Speaker 1: matchup based you know, uh situations. But and Mbiad's face
Speaker 1: was broken at the beginning of that and missing came
Speaker 1: in out of shape, and yeah you stay you stay healthy. Um,
Speaker 1: you got PJ Tuck on your team this year, another
Speaker 1: year under Tiris Max, he's about another year under you know, James,
Speaker 1: and James had a training camp with him be this year.
Speaker 1: They think, you know, forming a good one to punch here.
Speaker 1: So I can see it, man, I really can. I
Speaker 1: thought the thing with the with the Celtics for me
Speaker 1: was like last year they were clearly the better team
Speaker 1: in the finals until the Warriors just found what worked
Speaker 1: for them defensively, like the Celtics could not capitalize on
Speaker 1: their athletticism, and I worry about that happening again over
Speaker 1: the course of the series, where a team will be
Speaker 1: able to figure them out. So like that's why I'm
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, there's still the favorites in the East.
Speaker 1: But I could see Philly making a run for sure.
Speaker 1: I could see Milwaukee making a run for sure. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's that clear cut right now. Milwaukee
Speaker 1: looks really good to me. Have you seen the Jannic
Speaker 1: the Yeah, he's really when he's when he's got to go,
Speaker 1: and he's as dominant as as anything. Yeah. But anyways,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to mention the Sixers because I know
Speaker 1: our listeners are like, you guys don't talk about MB
Speaker 1: you don't talk about the Sixers enough, So I had to.
Speaker 1: I had to mention it. Really, just mention it. You
Speaker 1: know what's funny. I actually when when they played the
Speaker 1: clip us here a couple of weeks ago, I asked
Speaker 1: him about like the rise of European players, like the
Speaker 1: best four, the best players are international right now, and
Speaker 1: he cut me up and he goes, but who's the
Speaker 1: best player. I was like, I just said four, the four,
Speaker 1: the five or the best who was the best player that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I want the best players international and
Speaker 1: he goes, okay, okay, I'll take that. I'll take that, Okay,
Speaker 1: you asked Yeah. I asked him beat that post game
Speaker 1: and he was like, yeah, but I'm good he wanted
Speaker 1: me to say whether he was better than your kid
Speaker 1: is basically what he's trying to say, And I just
Speaker 1: went I played save. I was a kind of a coward.
Speaker 1: I was like the best players international, Yeah, very boy,
Speaker 1: don't give don't give the child what he wants. He
Speaker 1: was trying, and he was trying. He was trying right right, Jack.
Speaker 1: What did you think of the pleasantries exchanged between Marquelle
Speaker 1: Faults and like the team and there's there's a nice
Speaker 1: back and forth. I noticed, you know, like Embid was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I think we I think we gave up
Speaker 1: on him too early. False was like, I really, you know,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia can be a tough city, but they showed me love.
Speaker 1: It was all good. How are feeling around all that?
Speaker 1: Mark hell Folts and Jason Tatum are both very painful
Speaker 1: players for me to watch and contemplate because of the
Speaker 1: fact that I feel like embiad has a couple of
Speaker 1: chips if they if they make the right decision on
Speaker 1: on that trade and don't do it and just take
Speaker 1: Jayson Tatum at the three spot or you know whatever whatever,
Speaker 1: or draft him first if if they had to trade
Speaker 1: up for it. So I don't know and then you know,
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. I find myself the Sixers and the Nets
Speaker 1: played a really great competitive game, obviously without k D,
Speaker 1: but it was it was very fun, and I find
Speaker 1: myself still getting excited for when, like Ben Simmons had
Speaker 1: the best quarter I think he's had this season, maybe
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, just being aggressive and getting into
Speaker 1: the paint. So I'm just I'm ruined by my my
Speaker 1: history as a Sixers fan. You know, I can't, I
Speaker 1: can't be objective, but you know, when when they are
Speaker 1: playing mind games with Simmons, I'm like, well, you know
Speaker 1: was the real reason we're all here? You understand, right,
Speaker 1: But anyways, I'm happy. I think it's all silly and
Speaker 1: everybody should be friendly everyone, and it looks like and yeah,
Speaker 1: not to say that there's any bad blood, because I
Speaker 1: feel like most Sixers fans enjoy seeing that he's getting on,
Speaker 1: you know, in Orlando, which is always nice to see
Speaker 1: because for a moment there was I think but before this,
Speaker 1: I remember, before this podcast was out of markl. Folter
Speaker 1: was having trouble with the shooting. We were always like,
Speaker 1: what what has to happen? Well it was I I
Speaker 1: did give him some pointers right after he was drafted
Speaker 1: and told him to you know, we're at work with
Speaker 1: a tennis ball and softball and in your old high
Speaker 1: school coach. Yeah, my old high school coach gave him
Speaker 1: the shot doctor t M. I do have a trademark
Speaker 1: next to that. Anyways, I am I am glad every
Speaker 1: time he's healthy and putting up some impressive stats and
Speaker 1: he's he's really like a fun person to watch. Should
Speaker 1: we take a break, come back and talk about some
Speaker 1: movers and shakers, Why not? As long as they're moving
Speaker 1: somewhere and we're back. I feel like we're starting to
Speaker 1: see things shape into a standings that I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been shocked by, like at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 1: So the Pelicans, I mean we we did say the
Speaker 1: Pelicans were gonna be good. I didn't necessarily think they
Speaker 1: were gonna be at the top of the West like
Speaker 1: they were a couple of weeks ago. They have since
Speaker 1: them gone one and nine over the last ten. They're
Speaker 1: down to the eighth seed in a plant spot Pacers
Speaker 1: one and nine over the last ten, and then the
Speaker 1: Wolves and Clippers, who I think we expected to be
Speaker 1: pretty solid this year are six and four and seven
Speaker 1: and three, uh or the Clippers are six and four,
Speaker 1: seven and three over the last ten. Warriors are back
Speaker 1: in the five spot. I think the big surprise that
Speaker 1: like the team that everybody was, you know, expecting maybe
Speaker 1: to be contended, like at best, to be contending for
Speaker 1: a play in spot except for the King's sack down,
Speaker 1: Like there, what would what would that bed have looked like?
Speaker 1: I know, I'm pretty sure that they're over under on
Speaker 1: wins was like thirty three or something, right, Yeah, not
Speaker 1: being in the playoffs since what like two thousand six
Speaker 1: or whatever. So they're in the three spots in the
Speaker 1: West with a four game lead and the lost column
Speaker 1: over the four seed. So there, you know, they're solidly
Speaker 1: in there. But the heat are now rising, Like it
Speaker 1: really feels like the past couple of weeks has been
Speaker 1: a reversion to the mean of like what people's expectations
Speaker 1: were heading into the season. So I don't know, now
Speaker 1: they get a factor in like strength of schedule. Guys
Speaker 1: are in and out like matters um. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think the Clippers finished the first half of the season
Speaker 1: before they all start playing the most games of any
Speaker 1: team in the league. I think it's like sixty I
Speaker 1: want to say sixty one or sixty two somewhere like that. So,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, and March they have they have like four
Speaker 1: different sets of three days off or two days off
Speaker 1: they have. They have a bunch of days off in March.
Speaker 1: So they they got like a very front loaded schedule
Speaker 1: and then like the second half it is very very light.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know why we call the
Speaker 1: second half twenty games left, but um, they have a
Speaker 1: very you know, black second half. So I guess that
Speaker 1: all that all factors into you look at the rest
Speaker 1: days and who's in and out and all that. A
Speaker 1: lot of guys started the season hot and then kind
Speaker 1: of cool off, Like I think the Blazers kind of
Speaker 1: started hot and they felt like they kind of peaked
Speaker 1: too early. Um, so you know, the Clippers starting to
Speaker 1: play well, the Warriors are starting to play well there
Speaker 1: somehow back in the five seeds after it felt like
Speaker 1: they were the thirteen seed like a week and a
Speaker 1: half agour something like that. So close together out West,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, the Lakers are the Lakers are
Speaker 1: what are the thirteens right now? And there three games
Speaker 1: out of the sixth seeds like yeah, and then yeah,
Speaker 1: even Memphis too. They're starting to slip. Ever since uh
Speaker 1: that little showdown with Shannon Sharpe went down, feels like
Speaker 1: jaw hasn't quite quite found it. You know what, alright,
Speaker 1: we we do wanna. I think we've made a decision
Speaker 1: on who at least temporarily gets our nickname that we've
Speaker 1: been looking for the right candidate for business decision. The
Speaker 1: business decision being what how do we And as we
Speaker 1: define a business decision on this show is is somebody
Speaker 1: who is about to be on a poster and that
Speaker 1: makes the correct business decision to not contest the don't
Speaker 1: and just get out of the way, do not engage
Speaker 1: as quickly as do not engage, do not engage. Um,
Speaker 1: And I think I think we have it from last season,
Speaker 1: but this this does embody our definition of a business decision.
Speaker 1: You're going up. You realize, no, actually I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit the no smoke section. Yes, in fact,
Speaker 1: and smoked his head down the way to put his
Speaker 1: head down. I was like, nope, nope, praggye smoke said
Speaker 1: no smoke for me. It's truly So we're gonna we'll
Speaker 1: link off to it in the foot notes of this
Speaker 1: episode and on Twitter. Just suproducer Jabari found this and
Speaker 1: linked off to it on Twitter. But and he did.
Speaker 1: He did kindly contrast this with what I did in
Speaker 1: high school, which I went up against seven footer Dan
Speaker 1: goid Zerich and tried to contest every dunk. After he
Speaker 1: had dunked on me thirteen times, I was like, this one,
Speaker 1: this one, this is the one where my jumping skills
Speaker 1: exponentially increased. Yes, wow, so you were kind of like
Speaker 1: a punch drunk boxer, like it was the rocky one
Speaker 1: of getting dunked on. I was just punch drunk and still,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought I was going to get like
Speaker 1: style points or something because it was Jim. There's nobody
Speaker 1: there and it was just me getting abused. Well, look,
Speaker 1: and that's what it takes to make proper business decisions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I admire this so much. To marry you
Speaker 1: play ball like you ever you ever come across some
Speaker 1: moments like that. I mean, look, you know, egos aside,
Speaker 1: because this has been a touchy question, we've realized on
Speaker 1: the internet, nobody wanted to come in when they've had to.
Speaker 1: We we put into our listeners, like, hey, anybody else
Speaker 1: had some business decisions they had to make and people
Speaker 1: were hitting us up in the d M s and
Speaker 1: like just the tweet. I mean, I've always been I've
Speaker 1: always been the type of guy who just like, if
Speaker 1: I know, if I know the guy's trying to trying
Speaker 1: to slam it, I'm just I'm just gonna go for
Speaker 1: the arm as hard as I can. And so one
Speaker 1: time I did get the arm, I did exactly. I
Speaker 1: didn't block the dunk, just got in here. And the
Speaker 1: next time he decided to use two hands, So that's
Speaker 1: not did you tell him that's not fair as he
Speaker 1: was dunking it over you with two hands? Hey, no fair,
Speaker 1: no fair? Look at the ref. You look at the
Speaker 1: ref after ref. No fair, man, no fair. He used
Speaker 1: two hands on that one. Yeah, so ever since ever
Speaker 1: since I got two hands bunked on in high school, Um,
Speaker 1: I was, yeah, it's just not worth it, just not
Speaker 1: worth it. If it's if if if I think I
Speaker 1: can go for the arm, I would do it. Other
Speaker 1: than that, I'm just it's not worth it. Older I got,
Speaker 1: the more, I'm like, well, it's just it's just a game.
Speaker 1: I don't don't. I don't need to get dunked on.
Speaker 1: I don't need to. I don't need to take a
Speaker 1: charge here or or or you know, contest this shot here.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, have your highlight. I'm just gonna go back
Speaker 1: down and try to you know, get to the bucket
Speaker 1: or something. You know. Yeah, and I don't have a
Speaker 1: bruise dug at that point, so you get dunk. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't have a bruise d go. We're okay. Well,
Speaker 1: I do want to say just the the technique he
Speaker 1: uses Frankie Laino in this is so he jumps, but
Speaker 1: his body like so his legs jump, thinking I'm I've
Speaker 1: got to contest this because I'm the defender in the
Speaker 1: NBA basketball game. But like you can see as like
Speaker 1: the signal from his brain travels down his body to
Speaker 1: like recognize, like, oh, I'm gonna get dunked on if
Speaker 1: I don't do something drastic, and so his like eyes
Speaker 1: go dead and then his hands go down to his
Speaker 1: side like he's doing like the pencil dive that year
Speaker 1: when you're jumping into the like uh, and then like
Speaker 1: he also, I don't know. It reminds me of like
Speaker 1: what they tell you to do against a bear attack,
Speaker 1: Like if a bear is attacking you, you just go
Speaker 1: limp like that. You don't fight back, Yeah, don't fight
Speaker 1: back and just like kind of make yourself small, don't
Speaker 1: be interesting. I think I think Mila Kino was considering
Speaker 1: international relationship between Canada and France and didn't want to anything.
Speaker 1: He wanted to know business decision internationally as well. It's
Speaker 1: not just so yeah, yeah, that's true. I just love though,
Speaker 1: like how early though he gives up like he's still
Speaker 1: he's still on the ground here, and then as soon
Speaker 1: as he gathers to go up he started he gave
Speaker 1: up right here because he started immediately starts tucking his arms.
Speaker 1: It's as soon as his arms go down, as soon
Speaker 1: as Wiggins put his hands back yea, and it's like
Speaker 1: you know what this is gonna badly? Yeah, he's like,
Speaker 1: oh no, he's cocking it back right right. Well look,
Speaker 1: I mean look, Tom or do you have any other
Speaker 1: do any other memories hit your brain of other business
Speaker 1: decisions in the past that you felt like, you know
Speaker 1: that getting dunked on wasn't enough you want no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I mean like of that you can even recall from
Speaker 1: seeing the NBA or games past, because I feel like
Speaker 1: we always want our listeners to always be looking out
Speaker 1: for these kinds of interesting moments that we're trying to
Speaker 1: give definitions to, like making a big business. I can't
Speaker 1: think of any one moment, and I don't mean to
Speaker 1: put you on the spot, so I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: think of any one moment. But yeah, I mean I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan of those. I love when guys just admit,
Speaker 1: you know, a mid air that they're just not getting this.
Speaker 1: Is that almost now, now that I think about it,
Speaker 1: What would be more satisfying to the person dunking? It's
Speaker 1: to be like, oh, he made a business decision, or
Speaker 1: is it to like, you know, flex up over the
Speaker 1: vanquished when they're on the ground after Because I don't know,
Speaker 1: a party you'd be like, yeah, you already knew you
Speaker 1: did not even want to sign up for that. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Now I'm trying to think, what if you
Speaker 1: want to go viral? You know, Job food agree. I
Speaker 1: think I think job will take it both ways. But
Speaker 1: you know, the glory of cocking back and detonating on
Speaker 1: someone seems to be pretty satisfying. I I wouldn't know
Speaker 1: personally no, I would not. But just like the sounds
Speaker 1: that Dan get Zeriic was making when he was jumping
Speaker 1: on me, it seems to be sounds of great satisfaction
Speaker 1: and joy. Oh you felt that. You're like, this is
Speaker 1: probably disrespectful to to to give up, bit air if
Speaker 1: you if you're the guy who you really just don't
Speaker 1: just don't back up and give up. Yeah, kind of
Speaker 1: like a warrior code. It's like you came into the
Speaker 1: colosseum and this is to death, baby, this is to death.
Speaker 1: I would have went up with you too, and if
Speaker 1: you killed me, then that's what it is. What it is, okay,
Speaker 1: because if you block that shot, you're flexing on them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Although although it is a terrible to be like going
Speaker 1: up and like, oh, he's dunking it and then be like,
Speaker 1: you know what, arms across my chest as if I'm
Speaker 1: going down like an emergency slide on an airplane that's evacuated.
Speaker 1: I think that's the move. That's a business decision. I
Speaker 1: want to see across the arms like you're going down
Speaker 1: the slide off and coming off playing or like a
Speaker 1: water slide. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Tom as somebody who
Speaker 1: gets to see a good deal of NBA action in person.
Speaker 1: Is there a player that you've seen in person that
Speaker 1: just you would tell people like, don't talk about this
Speaker 1: person's game until you've seen them in person. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: think post injury Kauai has been pretty badly disrespected. Yea,
Speaker 1: And I think people just and you never know how
Speaker 1: someone's gonna come off with, you know, an a c
Speaker 1: L injury. I think he's one that is so you
Speaker 1: can never speed him up. He's gonna play his own
Speaker 1: game no matter what you're doing. Honestly, Steph Curry, if
Speaker 1: you just watch him like in an arena, watch him
Speaker 1: move off the ball and that guy standing on that
Speaker 1: guy's just Cardio is through the roof. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's really insane to watch it in person because defenders
Speaker 1: have to go through screens, went through the screens. It's
Speaker 1: just it's it's crazy to watch. Honestly. I know, I
Speaker 1: know it's not to pick it's kind of whack to
Speaker 1: pick the stars, I guess, But like just the way
Speaker 1: those guys um methodical, not sped up playing their own game,
Speaker 1: I think is is really really fun to watch. I
Speaker 1: think the Curry thing is really interesting because we were
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, his conditioning and how other NBA
Speaker 1: players who even attempt like some of the drills he
Speaker 1: does are just like vomiting within like twenty seconds basically yeah,
Speaker 1: And I can like yeah, because I mean I've I
Speaker 1: actually haven't seen Steph playing person, but that is like
Speaker 1: when I hear you say that, I'm like, yeah, actually,
Speaker 1: that is something I feel like I would really want
Speaker 1: to see in person, because just reading about his fitness
Speaker 1: regime and what he does to stay in condition is
Speaker 1: enough for me to be like, uh, yeah, that that
Speaker 1: sounds about right. He not only needs to be able
Speaker 1: to like run all the all that distance, like you know,
Speaker 1: top speed, but he's doing it while trying to keep
Speaker 1: his heart rate below a certain level, which is like
Speaker 1: the level at which he knows he can shoot well
Speaker 1: like that. That's just it's a whole different level of
Speaker 1: precision that I was not aware existed prior to him.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's one more thing. Let me throw
Speaker 1: one more thing out there. I guess one thing one
Speaker 1: player I think is like an underrated level of strong.
Speaker 1: It is probably like Demontes sibonis Um. He doesn't look
Speaker 1: like the biggest guy and I think like when, for example,
Speaker 1: when Steven Adams says that's a big guy, like a
Speaker 1: strong guy, but that you know that probably he's a
Speaker 1: guy who who doesn't look super bulky, but that guy
Speaker 1: in the post is just going to back you down
Speaker 1: no matter who you are. He is so wide, strong, base,
Speaker 1: just nice built, just he's incredible. He's another guy who
Speaker 1: I think his his post, his post game and his
Speaker 1: his strength has not really talked about as much because
Speaker 1: you don't really see that until you see, like in
Speaker 1: person for example. So right where Steven Adams reads as
Speaker 1: like you could put him in roles that were written
Speaker 1: for Andre the Giant and you'd be like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's that's that's about right. I should lift that
Speaker 1: car up with one hand. Um, all right, should we
Speaker 1: talk about some performances real quick? Yeah, yeah, let's give
Speaker 1: let's hand out some flowers real quick. Luca put up
Speaker 1: a fifty three, seven and five versus the Pistons, started
Speaker 1: the game with twenty four of his team's thirty points
Speaker 1: um just score of precision like the bal dominance and
Speaker 1: ability to make that work again continues to be unparalleled
Speaker 1: with Luca, and there was also I read a stat
Speaker 1: that he he hasn't scored fifty points outside of the
Speaker 1: state of Texas. Coming, Yeah, it's coming against the Spurs
Speaker 1: and the Rockets, like this season that he's just like,
Speaker 1: He's like not, He's like, yeah, Texas is where he
Speaker 1: goes off at the highest level. It turns out, okay,
Speaker 1: the big state. Maybe it always feels like home to him.
Speaker 1: We saw him Money showed up in that cowboy outfit
Speaker 1: to the game and just looked very was that was
Speaker 1: that a Christmas Day game? I'm trying to remember why
Speaker 1: where Luca was arriving, but he he just looked like
Speaker 1: a kid who just got in a costume and was
Speaker 1: like the most funny. He looked like Mike TV from
Speaker 1: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory who had like the cowboy
Speaker 1: guns and stuff. But there was a great moment afterwards
Speaker 1: where they're talking about it's like, hey, you know, Luka,
Speaker 1: you're you're you're not bad with your mouth. You know
Speaker 1: you'd like to talk a little bit of trash, Like
Speaker 1: what are your feelings on that? And there's this this exchange.
Speaker 1: But his answer about his like love of trash talk
Speaker 1: sent just shivers down my spine, just in the way
Speaker 1: he answered, I haven't having no problems that it's it's
Speaker 1: basketball gets me going for sure. Uh, I don't have
Speaker 1: no problems. Do you enjoy it? Yeah, there's almost something
Speaker 1: perverse about look on was basically yeah, that's me. Whoa, whoa,
Speaker 1: he said, yes, but it was yeah, which I think again,
Speaker 1: I love that. It just felt like something like a
Speaker 1: batman villain would say. His mouth said yeah, but his
Speaker 1: eyes said feed me daddy, which was never ending, never ending.
Speaker 1: Jana's put up a fifty thirteen versus the Pelicans, Uh,
Speaker 1: caped it off with a pull up three and did
Speaker 1: it all in thirty minutes, and it was just yeah.
Speaker 1: But when he's going towards the basket and they're throwing
Speaker 1: three bodies at him and he's just matrix ing himself
Speaker 1: through the time space continuum. Uh, it's it's pretty cool
Speaker 1: to watch the three body problem. The three body problem,
Speaker 1: that's what Yeah, that's what he solves on the regular. Yeah.
Speaker 1: There was some some wild stad I mean, like across
Speaker 1: like the last four games, like how he's just like
Speaker 1: the most potent score with like the least amount of minutes,
Speaker 1: but you know he's coming back with a bang. I
Speaker 1: think recently he was asked like, how do you feel
Speaker 1: are you better that this season the last season? He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're only seeing it yet. And you're like, oh no,
Speaker 1: what do you say, y'all? Aren't what he's like. He's like,
Speaker 1: he's just not seeing it yet. You like, mental, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like, huh. And Chris Middleton's back, come on now,
Speaker 1: hold them back? Okay, Okay, Yeah. They looked terrifying in
Speaker 1: that game. Granted the Pelicans were banged up, but like
Speaker 1: they they looked scary and like they were having fun
Speaker 1: and then they did it to the Pacers. I mean
Speaker 1: that that there were some dunks in that game that,
Speaker 1: barring if job Moran didn't exist, they would be my
Speaker 1: dunks of the year from Janice. There was one that
Speaker 1: was it involved a bad business decision. I'll say that
Speaker 1: it turned over the place of Alan pushing it. Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness, to building is buzzing right now, and what
Speaker 1: a pass coiverus the Hawks. It's a good point about
Speaker 1: like just his economy of motion, like there's no wasted movement,
Speaker 1: is just always so efficient, just directly gets to his
Speaker 1: spots um and it just like looks inevitable and there
Speaker 1: there's no other player. I heard this, This was true
Speaker 1: of Michael Jordan. That is like he just every part
Speaker 1: of him was incredibly strong. There's another player where you
Speaker 1: can like see how strong their hands are the way
Speaker 1: you can with Kauai, Like just when he's defending someone
Speaker 1: or when he's holding someone off, it's just wild, like
Speaker 1: it's just like a piece of steel. Don't you ever
Speaker 1: had a chance to or if you have a chance to,
Speaker 1: try to watch his just his shot release, watch how
Speaker 1: the ball looks so tiny and his in his palm
Speaker 1: and watch the release. It looks like he's throwing like
Speaker 1: a little tennis balls. Yeah, it's weird. He wasn't a
Speaker 1: good shooter when he came in league because like that
Speaker 1: is that makes it really hard to shoot when your
Speaker 1: hands up. Can I get a bigger ball man? Come on? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It was like I couldn't shoot a golf ball from
Speaker 1: three point range. But he is on point. He's shooting well,
Speaker 1: like when you know when he has a going he's
Speaker 1: he looks really good. I'm starting to believe the Clippers
Speaker 1: are gonna make some noise. And then Sacramento there there
Speaker 1: was like a University of Kentucky Showdown between Darren Fox
Speaker 1: and Anthony Edwards uh and Sacramento one. That one, Darren
Speaker 1: Fox dropped thirty two, Leek Monk dropped nineteen off the bench.
Speaker 1: So Wildcat fans were probably enjoying that one, and Hot
Speaker 1: Cheetos fans as well. Yeah, what was the hot Cheetos thing? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 1: three back, he's got a three bag problem. Well that
Speaker 1: brings us to the hot seat. I guess we'll come
Speaker 1: back and do a rapid fire eh. Yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: we're back until Mara Zarlee. You are about to embark
Speaker 1: on the fastest paced question and answer segment in podcast history.
Speaker 1: We call it the rapid Fire Round of Questioning. We're
Speaker 1: gonna ask you a question t M t M trademark.
Speaker 1: We're gonna ask you a question. Don't think too long.
Speaker 1: It's like a chess pet like just chest pass it
Speaker 1: right back. No no reactions, like here's a question right back.
Speaker 1: And so we wanted to straight out your brain. Don't
Speaker 1: take don't give extended answers. If we start talking about
Speaker 1: some nonsense, Pomer, please keep us on track, the host,
Speaker 1: This is kind of your responsibility as the guest. Also
Speaker 1: in this segment is to kind of drive it as well.
Speaker 1: You might want to look down and notice that the
Speaker 1: seat you're sitting in just became the hot seat. Yeah, trademark, Yeah,
Speaker 1: brought to you fries my wanting you go first. All right,
Speaker 1: here we go, Wow, thank you. We didn't even have
Speaker 1: to fight over that one, shall we? Here we go
Speaker 1: start the clock. My gosh, Clara Darley, if you could
Speaker 1: bet on any fan base to make the in arena
Speaker 1: challenge shots, you know, like the lay up, free throws,
Speaker 1: three point or half court you know that whole thing,
Speaker 1: which fan bases or fan base would you bet on
Speaker 1: to do that? Successful Lakers? Yeah? I mean they've they've
Speaker 1: had three half court winners just here. Oh that's true,
Speaker 1: three alone, three half court winners just this year. I
Speaker 1: think it was like a hundred thousand, seventy thousand the
Speaker 1: amount of resets every time someone makes it, right, So
Speaker 1: like they've had three of them. There's the three half
Speaker 1: court winners. Yeah, it's it's insane. I mean that that
Speaker 1: team has that. The Lakers should bring every one of
Speaker 1: those guys and signed them, like, yeah, two lasers out there.
Speaker 1: I mean I already forgot about my man who drove
Speaker 1: for Uber eats and hit that buzzer beater. Matt Ryan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan se this this is, this is where we're at.
Speaker 1: And I think he actually got got on the team
Speaker 1: from hitting a half court shot. I think during so
Speaker 1: got him for that game. Hit the shot, and then
Speaker 1: he just actually dropped off some movie eats for me
Speaker 1: earlier this week. So he's like out of it. He's like, Also,
Speaker 1: why so many Frosty's from Wendy's. You're like, hey, relax man,
Speaker 1: why are you asking so many questions? Okay, we were
Speaker 1: asking because the Pacers gave somebody five hundred dollars for
Speaker 1: doing Yeah, that's embarrassing. Yeah, that's embarrassing. But it also
Speaker 1: suggests that they're just like, yeah, of course you're going
Speaker 1: to hit that. You're from Indiana. Yeah, Church of Basketball.
Speaker 1: Minimum minimum if it was it was an half court shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah minimum, easy three, half court shot. Make all those Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh my god, that's that's disrespectful. Yeah, we got to
Speaker 1: call the u N you know what I mean, the
Speaker 1: Human Rights Counsel on this, Like this needs to be
Speaker 1: re addressed. They need to come back. I think, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: let's maybe more questions. I've only had one so far. Wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: tomares really okay, Okay, so he's fired me up, but
Speaker 1: I've only got one. Okay, Yeah, you're right, thank you, Tommara.
Speaker 1: We should keep this going, Jack, what's up? Anthony Edwards
Speaker 1: recently acknowledged a three bag per day habit of hot
Speaker 1: Cheetos fries. I believe it was twenty one a week,
Speaker 1: so you know we're averaging there, but we we don't
Speaker 1: know if like on Saturdays he's putting down eighteen and
Speaker 1: then like three on another day. But anyway, what was
Speaker 1: or is your wildest eating habit when you were a
Speaker 1: young athlete, like Anthony Edwards McDonald's with chickens, how many
Speaker 1: of you putting down? I mean there was a McDonald's
Speaker 1: right outside our high school, so I mean I don't
Speaker 1: say we're going every day or we were going maybe
Speaker 1: like three times a week to chickens for like two bucks.
Speaker 1: So I would tell me this probably five to sick
Speaker 1: the week, and was like the like the biggest hooper
Speaker 1: on your team? Did he have the worst diet of
Speaker 1: every any person on earth? Didn't follow that because there
Speaker 1: was a trend of hooper like people around me where
Speaker 1: I was just like are you guys even serious about
Speaker 1: your bodies because you're you play really well, but all
Speaker 1: you eat is like ice cream. I don't remember. I
Speaker 1: actually don't remember. Actually I used to do really well, Like,
Speaker 1: don't be wrong. I used to eat a lot of
Speaker 1: home cooked meals. We used to watch a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of what I ate. But having a McDonald's
Speaker 1: gonna tell your high school. It's just dangerous. It's really
Speaker 1: really bad. Like I'm I'm talking like we walked for
Speaker 1: maybe like a minute and we got there, like it
Speaker 1: was there right there. So um, I don't know about
Speaker 1: his diet. I don't. I can't remember, honestly, I can't remember. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I just feel like there's there's just something always unfair
Speaker 1: about like these elite athletes are like, yeah, what's your secret?
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, twenty one bags of Chester hot
Speaker 1: fries a week and you're like what there was like
Speaker 1: a takedown piece on Jeordan. It was like Jordan's rules
Speaker 1: and they're like he just polished off of Pepperoni pizza.
Speaker 1: Like this guy doesn't take it. Is like, actually, you're
Speaker 1: just making him seem more like a superhero man, Like
Speaker 1: that's unbelievable. That he doesn't watch what he eats, and like, yeah, Tommary,
Speaker 1: you never hit up that that Tommy's on Victory. Isn't
Speaker 1: that just up the street? So I have, but it
Speaker 1: was so much. I felt like I gained. I felt
Speaker 1: I felt so heavy after that. Yeah, at least felt
Speaker 1: I felt, you know, chi Burger from which man, No,
Speaker 1: that's just that's crazy. All right, Tommary, we really got
Speaker 1: to keep this moving, man. We can't just keep talking
Speaker 1: about obscure Burger, chains on Victory and Kester. We got
Speaker 1: to keep this segment moving. With All Star Weekend coming
Speaker 1: up in a few weeks, you have the chance to
Speaker 1: put together an all time three point competition. Which four
Speaker 1: shooters from throughout NBA history are you picked? I guess,
Speaker 1: like whenever playing, I'm guessing we're talking, yeah, George Gurban
Speaker 1: now yeah, i'd want to see Clyde Now, Um, I
Speaker 1: guess we'll go. I mean, is it Steph play Ray
Speaker 1: and Reggie right Miller? Like, I mean, there are no right,
Speaker 1: there's no wrong answers, right or wrong answers. But that's
Speaker 1: that's powerful. Yeah, that's a good Thompson, Reggie Miller, Ray Allen.
Speaker 1: See what those guys do if you get out of fifth?
Speaker 1: Who would you? Guy? Sorry to augment the question like that,
Speaker 1: but I just wanted to see what was you've got. No,
Speaker 1: let's just disappear. Maybe Kyle Korverer. I guess interesting could
Speaker 1: be in JJ Reddick. I'd be interested. Like some of
Speaker 1: the people from the eighties that you know weren't shooting
Speaker 1: as much as those guys like a Larry Bird for instance.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of that guy Larry Bird? He played
Speaker 1: for a little bit and like he was apparently real
Speaker 1: cocky and uh like like to talk trash around the
Speaker 1: three point contest. I think that'd be interesting to like
Speaker 1: put it out there or Craig Hodges Craig Hodges Man
Speaker 1: I think said ellis yeah interesting. Um, all right, you
Speaker 1: can go back time and watch any single NBA game
Speaker 1: gam from throughout history. Which game are you choosing? Or
Speaker 1: game or game in person or on TV? Oh since
Speaker 1: Calves games five in Yeah, game where a row thirty?
Speaker 1: I just wanted to earlier this year. Yeah that was
Speaker 1: It was like, oh, this is gonna be our next
Speaker 1: two decades, right, Yeah. I mean I was a Bronze
Speaker 1: fan that I watched that and I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: This dude is crazy. He was doing things he's never
Speaker 1: done before, like behind the back, dribbled to a side
Speaker 1: step three like I've never seen him make that move
Speaker 1: in his life. And he was sitting overtime like that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it'd be game It'd be game five. Pistons
Speaker 1: Calves two thousand and seven, Uh Conference Finals. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: could like kind of see the joy. He was like
Speaker 1: just making it up as he went and was like yeah, fun.
Speaker 1: And finally Tomara the most question Jack or Miles. Oh
Speaker 1: come on that. Oh that is tough. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: Jack because they feed me Daddy from Luca line earlier.
Speaker 1: Just um, wow, you're putting oh wowed daddy. I probably
Speaker 1: would have picked Miles. I'm just I get it. No,
Speaker 1: you you doubled back on that after even on the break.
Speaker 1: You're like, man, that feat is my year. I panicked
Speaker 1: when he went Tomary said he liked that line. I
Speaker 1: was like, um, he called out I had much that video,
Speaker 1: So I guess myles, thank you for bringing that up.
Speaker 1: You don't have changed, you don't have we get you
Speaker 1: can also may be a compliment. Come on now night, Yeah,
Speaker 1: stop that, I'm not here. Every what happened Tamary, I
Speaker 1: went oh and thirty before before winning my first one.
Speaker 1: I think I think is isn't aren't you going? Isn't
Speaker 1: like a three peet? Now? Yeah, this is three in
Speaker 1: a row. So I'm defeated in January after being without
Speaker 1: a win. It's it's like the plot to Major League.
Speaker 1: You know, so Miles has been to the mountain top
Speaker 1: and you know, now, what's your turn? Is what you're saying.
Speaker 1: You can kind of see it the way he like
Speaker 1: treats the guests like the under room. You know. It's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna It's just like I don't know, dude,
Speaker 1: Like I find out Jack's texting the guests during the
Speaker 1: recording behind ahead of time, like coming to a financial agreement,
Speaker 1: like what's this three one o number? Man? Like fifteen
Speaker 1: texting this, you'd be like, I'm I'm gonna lighte that
Speaker 1: after No Taste, No case. Tolmara is our lead. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining us. All Miles and Jack
Speaker 1: got Matt boost has been a fantastic guess a fantastic time.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you, a follow you and support
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